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Reflections on Chinese Policy in
Xinjiang - Uighur Autonomous Region
An eyewitness account of 5 July 2009 and
the aftermath, By R.A |
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2011-08-16 |
Eyewitness to 5 July, 2009
Reflections on Chinese Policy in
Xinjiang
By “R.A.” First published in Great
Britain in 2011
by Islamic Human Rights Commission
PO Box 598, Wembley, HA9 7XH
© 2011 Islamic Human Rights Commission |
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World Uyghur Congress (WUC) Troubled by
Witness Accounts on Hotan IncidentPress
release – For immediate release |
19 July 2011
Contact: World Uyghur Congress
www.uyghurcongress.org
Tel. 0049 (0) 89 5432 1999 or e-mail
contact@uyghurcongress.org
Based on several witness accounts, the
World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has serious
doubts about the official version of the
incident in Hotan, East Turkestan. While
the WUC unequivocally condemns all acts
of violence, it urges the international
community to view Chinese state media
reports on the incident with extreme
skepticism and caution since similar
events in the past have proven that the
Chinese government is systematically
spreading false information and
suppressing any information that
contradicts its official narrative. |
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Clash in China's Xinjiang killed 20:
exile group |
2011-07-18
Twenty protesters from China's minority
Uighur community were killed in a clash
with police in the ethnically tense
northwestern region of Xinjiang, a
Uighur exile group said Tuesday.
State media quoted an official in the
region calling Monday's clash a
"terrorist" attack and said four people
including a police officer were killed
when a crowd set upon a police station
in the remote city of Hotan.
But Uighur activists called it an
outburst of anger by ordinary members of
the mainly Muslim ethnic minority, and
accused authorities of attempting to
block information on the deadly
incident.
The Germany-based World Uyghur Congress,
citing sources in Xinjiang, said
security forces beat 14 people to death
and shot dead six others during the
unrest.
"The Chinese authorities should
immediately cease their systematic
oppression to prevent a further
escalation of the situation," said
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the group. |
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Chinese Police 'Gun Down' Xinjiang
Demonstrators in Clash |
2011-07-18
-- Police gunned down rioters in
northwestern China's Xinjiang region
yesterday, with the official state media
and an organization representing the
Uighur ethnic group giving conflicting
accounts of the incident.
China's official Xinhua News Agency,
citing unidentified people at the
Ministry of Public Security, said
rioters rushed a police station in the
city of Hotan at about 12 p.m.
yesterday, taking hostages and setting
the building on fire. One member of the
armed police, a security officer and two
hostages were killed, one security
officer was severely injured and police
"gunned down several rioters," the news
service said. |
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Torontoda Uyghur mesilisi: Xiristan we
yehudi dinidikilerning wekilliri
Uyghurlar bilen jem boldi |
2011-07-09
Kanada Uyghur Jemiyiti teshviqat bolumi
teyyarlidi
5- iyul küni kechte, Toronto sheheridiki
“Catch The fire” chérkowida,kanadaliq
siyasetchiler, kishilik hoquq
paaliyetchiliri we xiristiyan hem yehudi
dinliri wekillirining qatnishishi bilen
uyghurlarni qollash we ularning heqqaniy
dawasigha medet bérish paaliyiti
ötküzüldi.Bu paaliyet Kanada Uyghur
jemiyiti bilen “Erkin bir
Dunya”jemiyitining(One Free World
International Canada) hemkarliqida
uyushturulghan bolup,bu paaliyette,
Xitay mustebitlirining hökümranliq
astida uyghurlarning tartiwatqan
zulumlirini,bolupmu 5-iyul Ürümchidiki
hökümetke qarshi tenchliq namayishi we
uningdin keyin hazirghiche
dawamlishiwatqan..... |
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Chinese Security Efforts Questioned Two
Years After Xinjiang Riots |
2011-07-05
Chinese state media are questioning
whether security forces have gone too
far in cracking down on dissidents
in western Xinjiang province two years
after deadly riots that killed nearly
200 people.
In an article marking the anniversary of
the riots Tuesday, the Communist
Party-controlled Global Times newspaper
quotes a law professor saying the region
is "over-emphasizing stability
preservation" and could be fueling
increased tensions.
The article says life has largely
returned to normal in Urumqi, the
provincial capital. But it notes
authorities have doubled the region's
security budget and installed about
40,000 security cameras. |
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Christian, Muslim and Jewish Leaders
Uniting in Toronto July 5th for
Interfaith Human Rights Event in Support
of Persecuted Uyghur Community |
2011-06-30
On July 5, 2011, One Free World
International will host an interfaith
event in Toronto to raise awareness and
support for the persecuted Uyghur
community. Speakers will include members
of the Canadian Parliament, leaders from
the Christian, Muslim and Jewish
communities, and a keynote address by
Rev. Majed El Shafie. The event will
take place from 7:00 pm-9:00 p.m. at
Catch The Fire Church (formerly Toronto
Airport Christian Fellowship), located
at 272 Attwell Drive in Etobicoke.
"Our main goal is to bring awareness to
the situation in East Turkistan and the
plight of the Uyghurs living under
Chinese colonial rule," says keynote
speaker and One Free World International
founder Rev. Majed El Shafie. "We will
also promote and bring attention to the
urgent needs of the Uyghur refugees." |
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Kazakhstan deports Uighur to China,
rights groups cry foul |
2011-06-07
People attend a rally to protest against
the sale of Kazakh national resources to
China in Almaty, May 28, 2011
ALMATY, June 7 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan
has extradited an ethnic Uighur
schoolteacher who had been granted UN
refugee status to face charges of
terrorism in China, a diplomat said on
Tuesday, drawing condemnation from
rights groups who said the case was
politically motivated. |
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Using the internet in the People's
Republic of China |
2011-05-22
China makes no secret of its desire, and
ability, to control internet access, but
even at a glance it's clear that the
Great Firewall Of China leaks like the
proverbial sieve.
We had the chance to try our hand at
breaching that wall on a recent trip to
visit Huawei in Shenzhen. Our hosts
kindly supplied us with China Mobile
SIMs for data access so we could see the
internet as the Chinese see it, and we
managed to test out wi-fi connectivity
at a local hotel with similar results -
only the hotel wi-fi didn't kick us off
entirely for asking the wrong questions. |
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China to address pollution, disasters,
relocation problems in Three Gorges
region |
2011-05-19
SHANGHAI — China has admitted that its
showcase Three Gorges Dam, the world’s
largest hydroelectric project, has
caused a slew of urgent environmental,
geologic and economic problems.
The State Council, or Cabinet, made the
rare admission in a statement late
Wednesday that said the $23 billion
project was successful but requires
action to curb pollution, counter risks
of natural disasters and improve the
living standards of the 1.4 million
people who were forced to relocate. |
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Travel Ban Extends to Family |
2011-02-10
Chinese authorities increase
restrictions on a Uyghur economist to
include his wife and children.Chinese
authorities have extended a travel ban
on an outspoken Uyghur professor to
include members of his family and have
stepped up surveillance on the man’s
Beijing home since the New Year.
Ilham Tohti, an economist at Beijing’s
Central Nationalities University, said
he had been approached by Public
Security Bureau police before the new
year and handed a document which said
that no one, including his wife and
children, would be allowed to leave the
capital. |
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Uyghurs Held in Tajikistan |
2011-01-24
Three Uyghur businessmen may face
extradition to China.
Three Uyghur businessmen with Turkish
citizenship have been detained by
authorities in Tajikistan, sparking
fears that the men may have been held
due to pressure from China, according to
Uyghur groups.
They claimed that on Jan. 8, security
forces in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe
first picked up Ablimit Dawatoglu, whose
brother was executed years ago by
authorities in China’s northwestern
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. |
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Uyghur Student Sentenced to Death |
01 January 2011
A female Uyghur student in northwestern
China was sentenced to death with a
two-year suspension following a trial
last April on charges of participating
in ethnic riots that left hundreds dead,
according to a classmate.
Pezilet Ekber became the second Uyghur
woman to receive the death penalty in
connection to the unrest. Another woman
was executed by Chinese authorities
earlier this year.
“Nobody knows what exactly led to
Pezilet Ekber receiving such a heavy
punishment, other than her ‘involvement
in violence,’ because the trial was
secret and her parents were only just
informed of the decision,” her
classmate, who asked to remain
anonymous, wrote in a letter. |
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Uyghur Journalist Handed Life Term |
21 December 2010
A Uyghur journalist working for an
official Chinese radio service has been
sentenced to life in prison following a
secret trial conducted earlier this
year, according to a letter sent by a
friend to Radio Free Asia.
Memetjan Abdulla, an editor for the
Uyghur service of China National Radio,
was sentenced in April in a closed trial
in Urumqi, capital of China’s
northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous
Region, the letter said.
Authorities had charged Abdulla with
helping to instigate deadly ethnic
rioting in Urumqi in July 2009 following
Uyghur protests at the beating deaths of
Uyghur factory workers in the eastern
Chinese city of Shaoguan. |
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Twenty Uyghurs deported from Cambodia
still missing after one year |
16 December 2010
A year has passed since 20 Uyghur asylum
seekers were deported from Cambodia on a
Chinese plane under cover of darkness,
and despite Chinese promises to the
contrary, no information has been made
public about their fates. The Uyghur
American Association (UAA) calls upon
the Chinese government to provide
information about the 20 Uyghurs’
whereabouts, conditions, and legal
statuses, and to ensure their safety and
well-being. UAA also calls upon the
international community to continue to
express concern about their situation
and insist that they be treated
according to international human rights
standards. UAA fears that they have
likely faced severe persecution,
including possible imprisonment,
torture, and execution. |
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Vanhanen: China Did Not Warn PM about
Uighur Detainees |
03 December 2010
Former Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen
said Tuesday that he was not cautioned
by Chinese officials against accepting
Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay for
resettlement in Finland. Supposedly, a
U.S. diplomatic cable published by the
New York Times indicates American
diplomats believed this was the case. |
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Cables reveal difficulty of relocating
some Guantanamo detainees |
03 December 2010
China obstructed efforts to move 17
Chinese Muslim Uyghurs
Germany considered taking seven but was
warned "a heavy burden" could follow
The 17 ended up in Palau, Bermuda,
Albania, and Switzerland
The relocation of 17 Chinese Muslim
Uyghurs detained at Guantanamo Bay was a
thorny issue for the United States,
according to cables released by the
website WikiLeaks.
Attempts to find new homes for the 17
detainees was met with resistance
because of fear of retribution from
China.
At one point, Germany considered
accepting seven of the Uyghurs. But the
government was "subsequently warned by
China of 'a heavy burden on bilateral
relations'" between Germany and China if
the Germans accepted the detainees. |
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Explosion in China's restive Xinjiang
kills seven |
19 August 2010
BEIJING (AFP) – Seven people were killed
Thursday when a man drove a vehicle
loaded with explosives into a crowd and
it blew up in China's Xinjiang region,
the scene of deadly ethnic unrest last
year, an official said.
Police detained the injured suspect -- a
member of Xinjiang's Uighur minority --
at the site of the blast in the
outskirts of Aksu, a city near the
border with Kyrgyzstan, regional
government spokeswoman Hou Hanmin told
AFP.
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China sets
prison terms for 3 Uighur Web managers
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02 August 2010
Three Uighur-language website managers
were sentenced Friday to prison terms of
three to 10 years after being found
guilty under broad charges of
“endangering state security.” The men
had been jailed after ethnic rioting in
July 2009 in Urumqi, capital of the
far-western, predominantly Muslim,
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
Nijat Azat, who managed the website
Shabnam, was sentenced to a 10-year
prison term; Dilixiati Paerhati, whose
ran the website Diyarim, was given a
five-year term; and the webmaster of
Salkin, who goes by the single name
Nureli, was sentenced to three years.
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World Uyghur Congress Condemns 15-year
Sentence Handed Down to Uyghur
Journalist and Website Editor Gheyret
Niyaz
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23 July 2010
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) condemns
in strongest possible terms the 15-year
sentence handed down to prominent Uyghur
journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in
East Turkestan (also known as the
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of
China) on July 23, 2010. After a one-day
trial, the court convicted and sentenced
Mr. Niyaz to 15 years in prison on
charges of “endangering state security”
for giving interviews to media about the
aspects of Uyghurs’ situation that he
perceived to be the root causes of the
July 2009 ethnic unrest in Urumchi (the
regional capital) and for peacefully
exercising his freedom of speech in
other ways with regard to problems faced
by the Uyghur people.
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Uyghur journalist and webmaster Gheyret
Niyaz sentenced to 15 years |
23 July 2010
According to media reports, Uyghur
journalist and webmaster Gheyret Niyaz
was sentenced to 15 years in prison
today (July 23) for endangering state
security by speaking to foreign
journalists. Niyaz reportedly informed
government officials about plans for
demonstrations that had been posted on
websites prior to unrest that occurred
on July 5, 2009 in Urumchi, the regional
capital of East Turkestan, and later
criticized the government’s handling of
the unrest. The Uyghur American
Association (UAA) believes the harsh
sentence represents the Chinese
government’s policy of no tolerance for
any type of Uyghur dissent, as well as
the government’s campaign to tightly
control the flow of information and stem
public criticism of official policy. |
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East Turkestan: Pakistan Uyghurs in Hiding
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07 April 2010
Two prominent members of the exiled Turkic-speaking Uyghur community in Pakistan
, many of whom oppose Chinese rule in their homeland, are on the run from the authorities
following police raids on their homes.
Below an article published by Radio Free Asia :
Omer and Akbar Khan, who co-founded a charity to teach Pakistani Uyghurs their own
language in the northern city of Rawalpindi, said they had fled from police after
neighbors told them their close relatives had been detained for several hours.
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Chinese Yahoo Attack Targets Journalists,
Activists
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Mar. 31, 2010
Cyber hackers have targeted the Yahoo (NSDQ:YHOO) e-mail accounts of journalists
and activists who have previously written about or been outspoken about China with
a malicious attack this week, following Google (NSDQ:GOOG)'s announcement to
move its search office out of the mainland.
Specifically, several journalists in both China and Taiwan said that they were unable
to access their Yahoo accounts, in what appeared to be an orchestrated assault starting
March 25.
Yahoo e-mail service seemed to be restored Wednesday after a five-day outage.
Altogether, those targeted in the Yahoo e-mail attack included a U.S. law professor,
an analyst who had written about China's security and several print journalists
based in Beijing and Taipei, The New York Times reported.
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China protests over Uighur transfer
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2010 03 25
The men were among 17 Uighurs held at the Guantanamo prison camp in Cuba
The transfer of two ethnic Uighurs from the US detention centre in Guantanamo Bay
to Switzerland has triggered an angry reaction from China.
The two men, who are brothers, were recently resettled in Switzerland after spending
eight years in the Guantanamo camp, the US justice department announced on Wednesday.
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Cambodia deports Uighurs to China
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19 December 2009
At least 20 Uighurs who fled China after deadly ethnic violence earlier this year
have been deported from Cambodia, a government official has said.
Khieu Sopheak, a Cambodian interior ministry spokesman, said the group had been
put on a plane, sent from China, that left Phnom Penh International Airport at about
9pm (14:00 GMT) on Saturday.
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Media Report Xinjiang and Tehran Uprisings
Differently Chinese regime succeeds in suppressing information
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10 November 2009
The June uprising in Iran and the July Uyghur uprising in Xinjiang, western China,
featured a number of striking similarities. In both cases, an unelected, undemocratic
government brutally suppressed demonstrators addressing legitimate grievances, killing
dozens of unarmed civilians in the process. Now, some months later, the cases are
coming to the same appalling conclusion: Tehran and Beijing are carrying out executions
of those accused of organizing the demonstrations.
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China executes 9 Uighurs over July ethnic
riots
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China Extends Dragnet in Xinjiang Region
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"We Are Afraid to Even Look for Them"
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China's Xinjiang 'isolated'
by email, phone blocks
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East Turkistan (Xinjiang) authorities
ban online separatist talk: State media
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Taiwan opposition to show Tibet, Xinjiang
films
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Two Uighur men at risk of torture
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China lays first charges over Xinjiang
riots
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Uighur Dilemma
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South Korea releases Secretary General
of the World Uighur Congress
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South Korea holding, General Secretary
of World Uyghur Congress at airport
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East Turkistan (Xinjiang) needle
jab attacks not toxic: report
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Genocide in East Turkistan
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East Turkistan (Xinjiang) on Pins and
Needles
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China unrest: Appeal for help
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Turkey eyes new investments opportunities
in Uighur region
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Canadian foreign policy fails its citizens
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Taiwan festival to show film of exiled
Uighur leader
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Chinese break up 'needle' riots
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Turkish Minister urges for China apology
after harassment at airport
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The OIC Mission To China Returns To Jeddah
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OIC High level delegation visits Beijing
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OIC delegation to visit China
to observe first-hand Muslim Uyghur's conditions in Xinjiang province
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OIC Member States’ Representatives Meet in Jeddah to be Briefed on the Secretary
General’s Efforts Regarding Events in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China
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Unrest in East Turkestan:
What China is Not Telling the Media
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World Media Follow Beijing's
Lead in East Turkistan (Xinjiang) Reporting
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Turkish leader calls East Turkistan (Xinjiang)
killings "genocide"
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OIC Chief urges China to provide protection for civilians in Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region
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United China?
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China unrest :
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Tension In China
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OIC Secretary General expresses deep concern over recent incident
in Xinjiang Uygur
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The World Uyghur Congress appeals
to the people and governments in the free world as well as human rights organizations
around the world to take urgent action to stop the ethnic massacre in East Turkistan!
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Statement of Rebiya Kadeer at July 6 press conference on unrest in Urumchi
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Canadians protest China’s attacks on ethnic Uyghurs.
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Seven Muslim University Students Detained by Police; Two Still
in Custody
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No Direction Home -- One Uyghur 's (Uighur) Journey From East Turkistan to Palau,
via Gitmo
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United States Resettles Four Uyghur (Uighur) Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to the
Government of Bermuda
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(Swedish citizen Uyghur) 'Refugee spy' remanded into custody
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Uyghurs sold out in the US
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Third General Assembly of the
World Uyghur Congress held in Washington, DC
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Dragon Fighter: One Woman's
Epic Struggle for Peace with China
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Albania:
Getting Out of Gitmo
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Dalai Lama
says 'no hope' for talks with China: spokesman
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Celil allowed
to meet with mother, sister
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US Court
of Appeals blocks release of Guantánamo Uighurs as government resorts to ‘scare
tactics’
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China: Uighur writer detained
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2 Chinese Policemen Killed, 7 Wounded
in Xinjiang
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Two police die in Xinjiang clash
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US disappointed Olympics didn't open
China more
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Uyghurs stand up to China over East Turkistan
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Few answers in violence-hit Xinjiang
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