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  Uyghur Scholar’s Case Heading For Trial, Not There Yet: Lawyer

  24 June 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

  Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have transferred the case against jailed ethnic minority Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti to the state prosecutor's office, paving the way for a trial, according to his lawyer. Lawyer Li Fangping said he was notified about the development by the police department in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi. Li had previously ...
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  Uyghur Language Activist Formally Charged, Thrown in Notorious Prison

  21 June 2014 All Headlines, News

    A Uyghur language rights activist, whose whereabouts had been unknown since his detention nearly a year ago, has been thrown in a prison notorious for abuses against political activists and formally charged with soliciting “illegal” donations to run his kindergarten, according to sources. Abduweli Ayup was taken into custody on Aug. 20, 2013, after authorities clos...
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  Detained Uyghur Scholar Tohti Put on Secret Trial and Sentenced?

  17 June 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

  Ethnic minority Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, an outspoken critic of Chinese policies in the restive Xinjiang region, may have been put on trial and sentenced in secret, according to his lawyer, quoting unconfirmed reports. Beijing-based rights lawyer Li Fangping said he had heard that the trial proceedings for Tohti, who was charged with separatism a month after he was detain...
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  Six Killed, Two Injured in Fresh Xinjiang Clashes

  12 June 2014 All Headlines, News

  Police shot dead five ethnic minority Uyghurs and lost one of their own in fresh clashes in China’s restive northwestern Xinjiang region amid stepped up security checks in an anti-terror clampdown imposed after deadly attacks in the capital, according to police. Four of the men were shot in Kashgar prefecture’s Konasheher (in Chinese, Shufu) county in a confrontation tri...
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  Uyghur Traders Under Close Watch in Tibet

  11 June 2014 All Headlines, News

  Ethnic minority Uyghur traders and businessmen living in or traveling to Tibet have been placed under heightened scrutiny by Chinese police following an escalation of violence in their homeland in the Xinjiang region, sources say. New security measures include restrictions on freedom of movement and close inspection at checkpoints on roads leading to Tibet’s regional capital...
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  Uyghur girl

  07 June 2014 Photo Gallery

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  Uygur Dances

  06 June 2014 Photo Gallery

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  Four Killed in New Violence, Nine Sentenced to Death in Xinjiang

  06 June 2014 All Headlines, News

  Four people, including a police officer, have been killed and several others wounded in fresh violence in China’s troubled Xinjiang region, where nearly a dozen ethnic minority Uyghurs received the death penalty Thursday on terrorism-related charges, according to officials and residents. The killings occurred in two incidents in Toksu (in Chinese, Xinhe) county in Xinjiang’s...
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  uyghur kizi Gümire

  28 May 2014 Video Gallery

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  Police Defuse Bombs After Blast in Xinjiang’s Kashgar Prefecture

  27 May 2014 All Headlines, News

  A bomb exploded in front of a police department and four other bombs were defused by authorities in China's troubled Xinjiang region a day after attackers staged a suicide raid in the capital Urumqi last week, according to police Monday. Three of the four bombs defused on Friday in Yarkand (in Chinese, Shache) county in Kashgar prefecture, southwest of Urumqi, were found in ...
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  Xinjiang Police Open Fire at Protest Against Clampdown on Islamic Dress

  21 May 2014 All Headlines, News

  Police in China’s restive Xinjiang region opened fire Tuesday at a protest by hundreds of mostly Muslim ethnic minority Uyghurs angry over the detention of several women and middle school girls for wearing headscarves, according to residents who fear several were shot dead. The mass protest in front of government buildings in a township in Aksu prefecture’s Kucha county turn...
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  Jailed Uyghur Academic’s Salary Stopped, Wife Says

  17 May 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti

  Four months after Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti was detained on separatism charges, his university has stopped paying his salary, leaving his wife and young sons little to survive on as they struggle to cope with his disappearance. The Central University for Nationalities economics professor’s wife Guzelnur and their two sons have been living under heavy surveillance at their ...