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15 May 2014 All Headlines, News
Three senior Han Chinese officials were brutally murdered and their bodies dumped in a pond when President Xi Jinping visited the Xinjiang region—home to the restive mostly Muslim Uyghur minority—last month, according to police and local officials who had kept the bloody crime under wraps.
The killing of the trio—two of whom had their throats slit and the third who had b...
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10 May 2014 Argument, News
BEIJING — The pictures were harrowing — bloody corpses sprawled on the floor of a train station.
Chinese state media’s descriptions of the attack were equally shocking: a group of knife-wielding assailants had burst into the station in southern China on Saturday night and slashed to death at least 29 people.
You don’t often hear about terrorist attacks like this in China...
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10 May 2014 All Headlines, Argument, News
Chinese authorities have detained more than 100 relatives of a Uyghur accused of staging a deadly bomb and knife attack in the Xinjiang capital, most of them women and children, police from the man’s hometown said.
The relatives of Sedirdin Sawut, who authorities said was one of two Uyghur “religious extremists” behind a suicide attack at the Urumqi South railway station on...
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09 May 2014 All Headlines, Argument, News
Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang on Thursday shot dead one man after an attack on a police patrol left an officer seriously injured, according to official media.
An exile group said at least a dozen Uyghurs have been detained at random for questioning over the incident apparently sparked by police insults on the ethnic minority group.
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08 May 2014 All Headlines, News
Hundreds of Uyghur farmers in the northernmost part of China’s Xinjiang region have been forced to sell their land at low prices for Chinese development schemes, with those refusing to sign compensation contracts beaten and detained by police assigned to enforce the deals, according to sources.
The forced land sale over the last three years in Kunes County’s Toqay village in...
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06 May 2014 All Headlines, News
A deadly bomb and knife attack rocked the Xinjiang capital Urumqi last week as Chinese President Xi Jinping wrapped up a visit to the restive Uyghur region. Chinese state media said two assailants stabbed passersby and set off explosives outside the city’s largest train station, killing themselves and one other person and injuring 79. Releasing little information about the inci...
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22 April 2014 All Headlines, News
Vietnamese authorities arrested 21 illegal migrants from China on the same day as a gunfight between border guards and another group of Chinese nationals—whom experts have speculated could be Uyghurs—killed seven people, according to Vietnamese media.
The 21 were detained by border guards from the coastal Tra Co border station in northeastern Vietnam’s Quang Ninh province, T...
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19 April 2014 All Headlines, News
A Muslim minority Uyghur in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region and six of his friends have been detained for nearly 20 months over the stabbing death of a Han Chinese prostitute after expressing disgust over the mushrooming of brothels in their township, according to the man’s father.
Nurmemet Yasin, a butcher from Makit county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s Ka...
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15 April 2014 All Headlines, News
Police in China's northwestern Xinjiang region shot and killed an ethnic minority Uyghur student motorcyclist and wounded two of his pillion riders after they allegedly ran a red light on the weekend, sparking mammoth protests over the violent action, according to residents.
High school student Abdulbasit Ablimit, 17, died on the spot after he was shot from behind by policem...
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10 April 2014 Argument, Culture and Art, News
Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have stripped an ethnic Uyghur farmer and his brothers of their business licenses, causing loss of income from rental properties, in a bid to force them to sell their homes and vineyards at low cost to Han Chinese developers.
Located on a road leading from Yengi-Bagh village to eastern Xinjiang’s neighboring Turpan city, th...
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09 April 2014 All Headlines, İlham Tohti
The daughter of detained Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that Beijing has alienated itself from the minority group by arresting her father despite his peaceful promotion of equal rights and greater autonomy.
Tohti, an outspoken professor at Beijing's Central University for Nationalities, was detained on separatism charges in January and has been held ...
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01 April 2014 İlham Tohti
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award honours writers anywhere in the world who have fought courageously in the face of adversity for the right to freedom of expression.[1]
Established in 1987, the award is administered by PEN American Center and underwritten by PEN trustee Barbara Goldsmith. Awards have been granted to 42 writers from around the world. Of the 38 ...