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  Three Uyghur Farmers Shot Dead in Xinjiang Police Operations

  26 August 2014 All Headlines, News, Uncategorized

  Security forces in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region have shot dead three ethnic minority Uyghur Muslim farmers after they allegedly resisted arrest in connection with suspected separatist activities, according to officials. But a local Uyghur leader said the three did not commit any “tangible” crimes and were rounded up for possession of knives and axes as we...
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  Uyghur Judicial Official, Five Han Chinese Traders Murdered in Xinjiang

  09 August 2014 All Headlines, News

  Uyghur judicial official and five Han Chinese businessmen have been murdered in separate incidents in China’s troubled western Xinjiang region, local officials said this week, blaming a group of ethnic minority Muslim Uyghur suspects for the brutal slayings. Nurmemet Rozi, 37, the director of a township level justice department, was killed on July 18 when he was tracking...
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  Xinjiang City Bans Beards, Islamic Dress From Public Buses

  07 August 2014 All Headlines, News

  A city in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region has prohibited people with beards or those wearing Islamic clothing from traveling on public transportation, state media said, prompting anger from an overseas group who called the policy “racist” against the mostly Muslim minority Uyghurs. Authorities in Karamay city said people wearing hijabs, burkas, or clothing w...
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  HOME | NEWS | UYGHUR ‘At Least 2,000 Uyghurs Killed’ in Yarkand Violence: Exile Leader

  06 August 2014 All Headlines, News

  An exile Uyghur leader has claimed that at least 2,000 ethnic minority Uyghurs may have been killed by Chinese security forces following riots last week in a restive county in China’s western Xinjiang region, far more than reported by the state media. Citing “evidence” from the ground, Rebiya Kadeer, president of the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC), accused the...
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  Imam of Grand Kashgar Mosque Murdered in Xinjiang Violence

  31 July 2014 All Headlines, News

  The head of the largest mosque in China who has been highly critical of violence by ethnic minority Muslim Uyghurs in the troubled Xinjiang region has been stabbed to death, according to witnesses and local officials. Jume Tahir, the Uyghur imam of the Id Kah mosque in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's western Xinjiang region, was found in a pool of blood ...
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  ailed Uyghur Scholar Tohti Officially Charged with Separatism

  31 July 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti, News

  China's jailed ethnic minority Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti was officially charged in a Xinjiang court Wednesday with inciting separatism. The announcement on his indictment at the Xinjiang regional capital’s Urumqi Intermediate People's Court was made in a brief online statement by prosecutors, who had filed documents to back their case at the court without his or his law...
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  Four Arrested in Stabbing Death of Xinjiang Police Officer

  17 July 2014 All Headlines, Argument, News

  Four suspects have been arrested in connection with the brutal stabbing death of a police officer who had been promoted to lead a campaign aimed at combating terrorism in China’s restive Xinjiang region, police said Wednesday. The four suspects, whose identities were not revealed, staged a motorcycle accident to lure Li Hongjiang out of his car before stabbing him nearly...
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  Kashgar College in Xinjiang Threatens Fasting Muslim Students With Expulsion

  17 July 2014 All Headlines, News

  A college in Kashgar prefecture in China’s troubled Xinjiang region has warned ethnic minority Muslim Uyghur students who fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan that they may be expelled. The Kashgar Normal College’s controversial move came days after officials in Xinjiang told Muslim Uyghur civil servants, students, and teachers not to observe Ramadan, triggering...
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  US Academic Close to Uyghur Scholar Barred From Entering China

  08 July 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti, News

  A U.S. academic said Monday that he has been barred from entering China and sent back to the United States, apparently because of his essays written online in support of jailed outspoken Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti. Elliot Sperling—a friend and supporter of economics professor Tohti—said he was pulled out of line by passport inspectors after his arrival Saturday at Beijing ai...
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  Beijing Steps Up Security Ahead of Urumqi Riot Anniversary

  05 July 2014 All Headlines, News

  Authorities in the restive northwestern region of Xinjiang and the Chinese capital have stepped up security measures ahead of the fifth anniversary of deadly ethnic riots in the regional capital Urumqi, with a visible increase in the number of armed police on the streets, residents said. "The whole city is on a security drive, and the number of personnel and vehicles doi...
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  Detained Uyghur Scholar Rejects Separatism Charges in Meeting with Lawyers

  27 June 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

  Breaking his silence for the first time since his arrest five months ago, ethnic minority Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti told his lawyers Thursday that he was shackled and deprived of food and adequate water while in prison. At his first meeting with lawyers Li Fangping and Wang Yu since his January arrest, Tohti also flatly rejected charges of separatism leveled at him by t...
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  Uyghur Mother Detained For Public Outcry Over Missing Son

  24 June 2014 All Headlines, News

  An outspoken ethnic minority Uyghur mother has been detained for nearly one month for “incitement” after raising a public outcry in the capital of northwestern China’s Xinjiang region over the long-running case of her missing son, according to a local source. Patigul Ghulam was taken into custody by police officers on May 27, just five days after a deadly attack on a market ...