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Breaking News: China 9 convicts EXECUTED involved in Uighur Riots
Posted by: RaulDeSouza

Urumqi :: China | updated Thu Nov 12 15:26:32 -0800 2009 | disasters

Nine people convicted of murder and arson during July riots in China’s Xinjiang province were executed today. Chinese news services did not identify the executed, but previous statements suggest that they are Uighurs. The riots in Urumqi, the capital of...
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Latest Breaking News: Uighurs executed over deadly riots
Source: Al Jazeera

Urumqi :: China | updated Tue Nov 10 00:22:00 -0800 2009 | political-news

The executions followed a final review of the verdicts by the supreme people's court as required by law, the state-run China News Service reported on Monday. "The first group of nine people who were sentenced to death recently have already...
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Current News: Mentally ill Briton faces 'execution in days' in China
Source: The Guardian

Urumqi :: China | updated Tue Oct 13 18:28:33 -0700 2009 | technology-news

Lawyers for Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father of five from Kentish Town, north London, fear he may be shot imminently and without warning, despite the personal intervention of Gordon Brown in making representations for clemency to the Chinese authorities.
Credibility Views: 217 | News Stories: 6 | Blog Posts: 8 | 8 | 6 | 0
 
Current World News: Al Qaeda calls for holy war against China
Source: NewKerala

Urumqi :: China | updated Thu Oct 08 02:36:42 -0700 2009 | disasters

Muslims with historical and linguistic ties to the Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Uighurs live in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, which Islamists call East Turkistan. According to the Washington-based terrorism monitoring group IntelCenter, the tape was made around...
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Latest World News: Uighur Scholar Caught In Uneasy Middle Ground
Source: National Public Radio

Urumqi :: China | updated Thu Oct 08 13:18:22 -0700 2009 | disasters

But what got less notice was that the government also blamed someone inside China for inciting the violence: an ethnic Uighur economist. Hours after rioting began in the streets of Urumqi city on July 5, Nur Bekri, the provincial governor...
Credibility Views: 79 | News Stories: 3 | Blog Posts: 8 | 3 | 13 | 0
 
Current Event: Raise rights concerns with China, HRW urges
Source: NewKerala

Urumqi :: China | updated Wed Nov 11 11:05:36 -0800 2009 | political-news

The letter urged Mr Obama to raise three key issues: Freedom of Expression, including internet censorship and the imprisonment of peaceful government critics; Rule of law, especially the disbarment of China�s fledgling rights protection lawyers; Tibet and Xinjiang, particularly the...
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Latest World Event: Separatist acts on web banned in Xinjiang
Source: NewKerala

Urumqi :: China | updated Mon Sep 28 00:13:34 -0700 2009 | political-news

The rule follows in the wake of the July 5 riots in Urumqi, in which 197 people were killed and more than 1,700 injured.
Credibility Views: 10 | News Stories: 2 | Blog Posts: 0 | 15 | 8 | 0
 
Breaking News Event: 21 suspects involved in Urumqi riot prosecuted
Source: Xinhuanet.com

Urumqi :: China | updated Fri Sep 25 10:10:34 -0700 2009 | political-news

The local procuratorate on Friday brought charges against 21 suspects in the Urumqi riot.     The July 5 riot in the capital city of northwestern China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region left 197 people dead and more than 1,600 injured.     The city's...
Credibility Views: 11 | News Stories: 2 | Blog Posts: 0 | 22 | 2 | 0
 
Latest News Event: China blocks Internet in Uighur area
Source: United Press International

Urumqi :: China | updated Thu Nov 05 22:00:48 -0800 2009 | political-news

Four months after riots in China's Uighur Autonomous Region, residents there are still cut off from the World Wide Web. The government has not said when Internet access will be available again in the region and its principal city, Urumqi,...
Credibility Views: 8 | News Stories: 2 | Blog Posts: 3 | 4 | 4 | 0
 
Source: The Guardian

Urumqi :: China | updated Sat Oct 10 16:43:08 -0700 2009 | political-news

Observer reveal that Shaikh was recruited in a sting operation involving criminal figures in Poland, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. His defence was that he was duped by the gang and had no knowledge of the drugs. Shaikh, who is married to...
Credibility Views: 11 | News Stories: 2 | Blog Posts: 0 | 1 | 0 | 0

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