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The People's Republic of China at Sixty: The Fear of Self-Examination

Henryk Szadziewski | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

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Henryk Szadziewski

Just as Deng made a bold move to take China into an era of economic reform, Hu will have to make a bold move, by talking with dissenters to take China into an era of meaningful political reform.

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The Witness to Guantanamo Project: In-Depth Filmed Interviews of Former Guantanamo Detainees

Peter Jan Honigsberg | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

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Peter Jan Honigsberg

We hope to film hundreds of interviews of former Guantanamo detainees. We are determined to document the systematic human rights abuses and rule of law violations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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If Only the Uyghurs had Twitter

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rebiya Kadeer, Xinjiang Province, Twitter, Urumqi, Uyghurs, Urumqi Riots, China, Xinjiang, Uighurs, Uyghur Human Rights Project, Urumchi, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

It's not that Americans don't care about Uyghurs. They just don't hear about the systematic slaughter of the Uyghur people by the Chinese government.

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China: Uighur Factory Workers Held Behind Locked Gates

GlobalPost | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

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SHAOGUAN, China -- Three weeks after simmering racial tension escalated to mayhem and a double murder at a toy factory here, about 750 Uighur workers ...

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China Riots: West Descends Into Mob Violence Between Han Chinese, Muslim Uighurs

AP | WILLIAM FOREMAN | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

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URUMQI, China — Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the stre...

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My Trip to Guantanamo: It Must Be Closed

Rep. Jan Schakowsky | Posted 07.26.2009 | World

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Rep. Jan Schakowsky

Decisions about placement of prisoners are made based on their level of compliance. It has nothing to do with alleged terrorist activities or crimes, since no one -- you got it -- no one has been convicted of anything.

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Guantanamo Uyghurs' resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Guantánamo is full of bleak stories. How could it fail to be, when it is a vast failed experiment, a "terror prison" that contains few terrorists, a ...

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China Kills Five Muslim "Militants" In Olympic Anti-Terror Raid

Guardian | Matthew Weaver | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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Chinese authorities today claimed they had foiled an attempt to sabotage next month's Beijing Olympics as they confirmed the shooting dead of five all...

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