Urumqi News

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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,...