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.
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.
BEIJING — Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking
part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead
in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest,
Chinese state media reported Monday.
The nine were put to death recently after a final review
of the verdicts by the Supreme People's Court as
required by law, the official China News Service said,
but gave no specific date or other details.
BEIJING — Four months after ethnic rioting in western
China’s Xinjiang region killed nearly 200 people,
security officials there have started a fresh dragnet to
track down accused rioters and other so-called terrorist
elements, a state-run regional newspaper reported
Tuesday.
Enforced Disappearances in the Wake of Xinjiang’s
Protests
This 44-page report by Human Rights Watch documents the
widespread campaign of unlawful arrests carried out by
Chinese security forces in the Uyghur areas of Urumchi
in the wake of July 5. The “enforced disappearances” of
Uyghur men and teenagers in Urumchi occurred as a result
of large-scale sweep operations as well as targeted
raids. While Human Rights Watch was able to secretly
document the cases of 43 "enforced disappearances", the
total number of unlawfully arrested Uyghurs is likely
much higher.
BEIJING — Residents in China's restive Xinjiang region
remain isolated from the outside world with long-lasting
Internet and phone cuts that have prompted some
businesses to relocate, locals said Saturday.
Emails are still blocked nearly four months after deadly
ethnic unrest erupted in the regional capital Urumqi, as
are text messages and international phone calls,
residents told AFP.
"Our business has been seriously affected, and we have
had to set up an office in Lanzhou (capital of
neighbouring Gansu province)," said the head of an
Urumqi-based firm, who asked to remain anonymous.
BEIJING: Authorities in China's restive northwestern
Xinjiang region on Sunday approved a bill making it a
criminal offence for people there to
discuss separatism on the Internet, state media
reported.
The bill passed by Xinjiang's standing committee bans
people in the region from using the Internet in any way
that undermines national unity, incites ethnic
separatism or harms social stability, the China News
Service reported.
TAIPEI — Taiwan's pro-independence opposition said
Friday it plans to show more films about Tibet and
Xinjiang to counter China's alleged boycott of the
island's number two city over a controversial biopic.
"We want to stress that Taiwan is a place of freedom of
speech and freedom of creation despite China's boycott,"
said Sky Chao, a spokesman for the Democratic
Progressive Party (DPP).
Shohret Tursun was one of some 40 people from Korgas who
were detained around at the time of the July riots in
Urumqi, the regional capital. According to his father,
quoted by Radio Free Asia, he was transferred to Ili on
18 July and further on to Korgas on 23 July.
BEIJING - China announced the first charges to be laid
in connection with violent unrest in July that shook
China's northwest region of Xinjiang, home to Muslim
Uighurs.
Twenty-one people had been charged with murder, arson,
robbery and damaging property during ethnic riots that
erupted in Urumqi, Xinjiang's capital, on July 5, Xinhua
news agency said.
China
August 2009 Ever since the violence between Muslim
Uighurs and Han Chinese, a fear of fanaticism has taken
hold. Is the government's decision to demolish the
Uighur area Kashgar really due to an earthquake threat?
Kashgar is a cultural icon. Parts of the city have stood
for 2000 years and within its labyrinth, Uighur
traditions are unchanged. 'We live as we did in the old
times' says Tursun, a 6 generation pot thrower.
