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Australia to refuse to take six Uighur men released from Guantanamo Bay and sent to Palau, the Pacific island nation's President Johnson Toribiong said today. Mr Toribiong, who has welcomed the six Muslims who spent almost eight years in detention at...
Tags: China, Australia, Uighurs, Palau, pressured australia, Mexico, Uyghur people, Johnson Toribiong, Xinjiang, Hassan Anvar, Ahmad Muhamman Yaqub, Uyghurs, Ahmad Tourson
They proclaimed the deaths of nine men convicted of murdering people during the racial violence that convulsed the remote city of Urumqi in July. No details were released of the condemned men’s last moments and few dared to mourn them. The executions...
Tags: Uighurs, China, Urumqi, Uyghur people, Ahmad Muhamman Yaqub, Adel Noori, War Conflict, Uyghurs, Islam in China, Xinjiang
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...
Tags: Uighur Riots, Urumqi riots, Xinjiang province, China Riots, Chinese Muslim, Muslim, Islam, China, Uighurs, Han community
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 been executed...
Tags: China News Service, ethnic riots, Uighurs, china executed, Urumqi, Xinjiang, worst ethnic, xinjiang region, death recently, final reviewed
Visiting exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Saturday his planned visit to Buddhist monasteries in a disputed area near the China-India border is not politically motivated and should not upset the Chinese government. To access full stories...
Tags: China-India, China Continues Crackdown, Dalai Lama Saturday, Rebiya Kadeer, says china, spiritual leader, Tibetan, kadeer says, Han Chinese, Uighurs
In a report published on Wednesday, the human rights group identified 43 missing Uighurs detained after the riots and said many more members of the Muslim ethnic minority might have been taken away by the authorities. “The cases we documented are likely...
Tags: Human Rights Watch, Uighurs, China
On the day she arrived in Auckland, Ms Kadeer heard that six of her Muslim Turkic-speaking Uighur people had been sentenced to death for murder and other crimes committed during the ethnic rioting in July, in which almost 200 people died. China accuses...
Tags: Uighurs, China Economic Review, South China Morning Post, World Uighur Congress, Ms Kadeer, Beijing
Nearly 200 people were killed during the riots between ethnic Uighurs and members of China's dominant Han group. China's state Xinhua news agency said a court in the regional capital Urumqi sentenced a seventh person to life in prison. The riots saw the...
Tags: China, death sentenced, Uighurs, Xinhua
Taiwan will screen films about Tibetans and Uighurs, China's most restive ethnic groups, on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China, sponsors said, likely to anger its diplomatic rival. "The 10 Conditions of Love", a documentary...
Tags: China, Taiwan, Uighurs, Rebiya Kadeer
Taipei, Sept. 24 (CNA) The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) unveiled Thursday its plan to show more documentaries in Taiwan about the human rights movement in China's minority areas of Xinjiang and Tibet, after the screening of a film about...
Tags: Taiwan, Rebiya Kadeer, China, Ms Kadeer, Uighurs, exiled uighur, Xinjiang, uighur activist, Democratic Progressive Party, Tibet, Taipei