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  Jailed Uyghur Scholar Tohti Gets Award Despite Beijing’s Intervention

  05 November 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti, Photo Gallery

  ournalists in Turkey have awarded a freedom prize to jailed Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, rejecting demands by the Chinese authorities not to confer the award on the outspoken professor. The Bartın Province Journalists Association and International Journalism Association For Turkic-Speaking Countries gave Tohti the “Ismail Gaspirali Turkic World Freedom Award” at a ceremon...
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  Chinese Security Checks ‘Target Uyghurs’ Ahead of APEC Summit

  30 October 2014 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News

  Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region are targeting ethnic minority groups in a major "anti-terrorism" campaign ahead of a key leadership summit in Beijing next week, an exile group said on Wednesday. Authorities in Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking Uyghur ethnic group, have already stepped up surveillance of the region's ethnic minori...
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  New Film Examines ‘Injustices’ Endured by Guantanamo Uyghurs

  23 October 2014 All Headlines, Argument, News, World

  A new documentary about 22 Uyghurs held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay highlights the “injustices” they endured for more than a decade as well as the alleged discrimination faced by the ethnic minority group as a whole in China, according to the film’s director and a movie participant. Uyghurs: Prisoners of the Absurd, which premiered earlier this month ...
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  China Executed More Than 2,000 People Last Year: Rights Group

  23 October 2014 All Headlines, News, World

  Chinese authorities executed some 2,400 people in 2013, with a similar number of death penalties expected to be carried out this year, according to estimates from a U.S.-based rights group. The figures represent a sharp fall across much of China, but the Dui Hua Foundation said the number of executions carried out in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang, which ha...
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  22 Killed in Farmers’ Market Attack in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture

  20 October 2014 All Headlines, News

  Four ethnic minority Uyghur men armed with knives and explosives attacked a farmers' market in northwestern China's unrest-plagued Xinjiang region this week, leaving 22 people dead, including police officers and the attackers themselves, according to police Saturday. The daring Oct. 12 raid on the majority Han Chinese Farmers Trading Center in Maralbeshi (in Chinese, Bac...
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  Three Police Officers Among Eight Killed in New Xinjiang Violence

  14 October 2014 All Headlines, News, World

  Two ethnic minority Uyghurs went on a stabbing spree in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region last week, killing three police officers and three government officials before they were gunned down by the authorities in the latest violence to hit the troubled region, according to local officials. Abdurehim Tuniyaz, 25, and Ablikim Abdurehim, 26, staged the killings in Hotan ...
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  Uyghur Youth Dies in Prison After Being Held For Illegal Travel to Vietnam

  14 October 2014 All Headlines, News

  A 21-year-old Uyghur man has died in prison in south-central China as he was about to end an 11-month jail sentence for illegally traveling to neighboring Vietnam, his father said, suggesting he may have died under mysterious circumstances. Abdullajan Abdulmennan, who was born in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region but was granted Turkish citizenship last year, went ill...
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  Rights Groups Say Malaysia Should Not Deport Undocumented Uyghurs

  08 October 2014 All Headlines, News, World

    Human rights groups have asked Malaysia not to deport more than 150 of China’s ethnic minority Uyghurs back home, fearing they could be persecuted on their return. Malaysian authorities detained the 155 undocumented Uyghurs, including 76 children and 37 women, last week after finding them in two cramped apartments in the capital Kuala Lumpur during a raid, accordin...
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  China’s Fruitless Repression of the Uighurs

  01 October 2014 All Headlines, Argument, History, İlham Tohti, News, Religion

  James A. Millward Last week, a court in China’s far western Xinjiang region sentenced Ilham Tohti, a member of the Uighur minority, to life in prison for the crime of “inciting separatism.” The conviction of this moderate scholar elicited international condemnation; the sentence was an order of magnitude longer than those given to other Chinese dissidents. But, far fro...
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  Official Death Toll in Xinjiang’s Bugur Violence Climbs to 50

  27 September 2014 All Headlines, Argument, News, World

  Chinese authorities announced Thursday that 50 people were killed in the latest violence in the restive Xinjiang region, revising sharply upwards its previous death toll of two in the weekend attacks on police stations and government buildings. Chinese official media gave the new figures after RFA quoted local officials and eyewitnesses as saying that the death toll in t...
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  At Least a Dozen Killed, 100 Wounded in Bugur Riots in Xinjiang

  26 September 2014 All Headlines, News

  At least a dozen people, including three policemen, were killed and about 100 injured in attacks targeting government buildings and police stations in a southern prefecture of China’s restive Xinjiang region at the weekend, local officials and eyewitnesses said, as details of the violence emerged Thursday. The Xinjiang government's Tianshan web portal had said on Monday ...
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  US condemns China jail term for Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti

  24 September 2014 All Headlines, Culture and Art, İlham Tohti, News, World

  The United States has expressed strong concern after China jailed Uighur academic Ilham Tohti for life. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was "deeply disturbed" at the move. He and the White House both called for Tohti's immediate release. China's foreign ministry said it was opposed to foreign interference in China's judicial sovereignty. Tohti was jailed on Tue...