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Who Are the Six Uighurs Released From Guantanamo to Palau?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

Read More: War on Terror, Afghanistan, Palau, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Taliban, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Qala-I-Janghi Massacre, Northern Alliance, Xinjiang Province, Guantanamo Bay, The Guantanamo Files, China, World News
Andy Worthington

I am drawing together here the stories of six men who, nearly eight years after their wrongful and mistaken capture, are finally free from Guantánamo, even if an uncertain future awaits them.

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Xinjiang Riots: China Sentences 3 More To Death

AP | ALEXA OLESEN | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Uighur Protests, Xinjiang Riots, China Uighur Protests, Xinjiang Province, China Death Sentence, China, Uighurs, Xinjiang, Uighur Riots, World News

BEIJING — China sentenced three more people to death Thursday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bri...

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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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Fair and Balanced? Lhasa Vs. Urumqi

Alexander Davenport | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, China Tibet Crackdown, China-Tibet-Conflict, China Uighur Protests, Tibet Protests, Xinjiang Province, Urumqi, Free Tibet, China Riots, Tibet, China Tibet, China Tibet Uprising, Uighurs, China, Xinjiang, World News
Alexander Davenport

Why do rioting Tibetans generate more interest than rioting Uighurs?

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Xinjiang Mosques Reopen For Friday Prayers

Associated Press | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Foreign Affairs, Mosques, Uighur, Urumqi, Uighurs Mosque, Urumqi Mosques, Uighurs, China Uighurs, China Mosque, Religion, Uighurs China, Xinjiang Mosques, China Uighur Protests, Uighurs in China, Xinjiang Province, China, Advocacy, Xinjiang, World News

URUMQI, China (AP) - Mosques opened for worshippers in Urumqi on Friday, but shops nearby were forced to shut as security forces kept a tight grip on ...

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China Uighur Protests Traced To Questionable Exported Labor Program

Washington Post | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, Uighurs China, Uighurs in China, China Uighur Protests, Xinjiang Province, China Labor Law, China Labor, Foreign Affairs, Uighur, China, Uighurs, Advocacy, World News

When the local government began recruiting young Muslim Uighurs in this far western region for jobs at the Xuri Toy Factory in the country's booming c...

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China: Uighur Factory Workers Held Behind Locked Gates

GlobalPost | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: Uighur China, Xingiang Uighurs, Xinjiang Province, Uighur, Shaoguan, Guangdong, Uyghurs, China, Uighurs, World News

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 Protests: Muslims Condemn China's Uighur Crackdown

Ankara | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, China Uighur Protests, China Crackdown, Xinjiang Province, Foreign Affairs, Xinjiang Protests, Uighur, China Uighur Crackdown, Xinjiang Terrorism, Uihgur Protests, China Protests, Uighurs, China, Advocacy, Xinjiang, World News

MUSLIMS in many nations have condemned China's crackdown in its Xinjiang region where at least 156 people have been killed in unrest over the past wee...

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If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel

Mona Eltahawy | Posted 08.08.2009 | World

Read More: Women, Sting, Twitter, Bloggers, U.S., Tibet, Facebook, Uighurs, Bjork, Darfur, Arabs, Buddhist, Sudan, Egypt, Xinjiang Province, Muslim, Israel, China, Bono, World News
Mona Eltahawy

If these Uighurs were Buddhists, Bjork, Sting, Bono and all those other one-named saviors of the world's poor and oppressed would have held "Free Xinxiang" concerts already.

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China Uighurs Protest Coverage Shows Changes In State Media Blocks

Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: China Uighurs, China Internet, Twitter, China Twitter, China Uighur Protests, China Media, Xinjiang Province, Foreign Affairs, China Media Censorship, Uighur, China Internet Access, China Media Internet Censorship, Xinjiang, China, Uighurs, Advocacy, World News

News of Sunday's riots in Urumqi, the capital of China's far west Xinjiang region spread quickly on the Internet, where users posted amateur photos an...

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Getting Along with the Invaders: Bishkek Versus Kashgar

Alexander Davenport | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo Uighurs, Xinjiang Province, Guantanamo Detainees, China Human Rights, China, Uighurs, Kyrgyzstan, World News, Kyrgyzstan Russia, World News
Alexander Davenport

My experiences out West revealed the simmering race relations between the Han and Uighur peoples, which helps explain the necessity of sending Uighur detainees from Guantanamo to Palau and not back to China.

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China Executes Two Uighurs For Pre-Olympics Police Killings

Guardian | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: China Attacks, Foreign Affairs, China Executions, China Olympics, China, Uighurs, Advocacy, Xinjiang Province, Xinjiang Terror Raid, Xinjiang, World News

China executed two men from a Muslim minority group today for killing 17 police officers in an attack in the country's far west that the government po...

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

Guardian | Matthew Weaver | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Beijing, Xinjiang Province, Xinjiang Terror Raid, Xinjiang Terrorism, China Anti-Terrorism, China, Xinjiang, Uyghurs, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Politics News

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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