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20 July 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Article Reasoning, Culture and Art, Education
A Uyghur student sits at a restaurant table in Cairo while police detain others behind him.
Ethnic Uyghur students detained in Egypt for deportation to China are being held by the country’s national intelligence service, according to an activist, as a human rights group said the agency’s involvement is a clear indication that Beijing had ordered the roundup.
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28 June 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Article Reasoning, Education, Friends of Uyghurs, News, World
Authorities in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning have released dissident and Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo to hospital with terminal liver cancer, his family said on Monday.
Liu, 61, is currently being treated at a hospital in Liaoning's provincial capital Shenyang, his lawyer told RFA, following a diagnosis of late-stage liver cancer little more than a mon...
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28 June 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Article Reasoning, Culture and Art, Education, Environment and Health, News, World
A young Uyghur woman deported from Vietnam to China after trying to join her family in exile has vanished in police custody, her father says, breaking a three-year silence to ask for information on her whereabouts and condition.
Rizwangul Tursun, now 21, was part of a group of 16 Chinese citizens, including four women and two children, sent back on April 18, 2014, follow...
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28 June 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Article Reasoning, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News, World
By ELLEN BARRY and YUFAN HUANGJUNE 27, 2017
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President Trump embraced Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India after their dinner at the White House on Monday. CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
NEW DELHI — As Indians savored Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s effusive welcome in the White ...
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21 June 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Article Reasoning, Culture and Art, News, Religion, World
By MARK LANDLER and GARDINER HARRISJUNE 20, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Tuesday that China had not succeeded in getting North Korea to curb its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, an extraordinary admission of failure in his strategy for dealing with the rogue regime of Kim Jong-un.
Mr. Trump’s statement — delivered in an almost cavalier tweet, given...
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09 June 2017 All Headlines, Article Reasoning, Culture and Art, Education, Friends of Uyghurs, News, Religion
One member of the Uyghur diaspora explains why Uyghurs abroad raise their banners outside Chinese embassies.
By Munawwar Shamseden Abdulla
A question I am often asked is why I participate in protests and demonstrations. What impact do our blue and white placards and hoarse voices have against a stoic Canberran building that hoists the Chinese flag? Per...
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09 June 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Article Reasoning, Culture and Art, Education, History, News, Religion
Anders Corr
Professor Graham Allison at Harvard University mooted a solution to the North Korea conflict in the New York Times on May 30. Allison starts by scaring us with a high likelihood of war, about 75%, in similar conflicts between a major power and a smaller rising power in history. That I believe. He implies a 33% chance that the North Korea crisis, like th...
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08 June 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News
By Adrian Zenz
Xinjiang’s removal of the added points policy for university entrance is not all bad news for its ethnic minorities.
On April 12, China’s Ministry of Education announced that the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), the restive Muslim province in China’s far west, would no longer provide added points to university entrance exam applicants from bili...
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02 June 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Education, Friends of Uyghurs, News, Religion, World
40 Million Profiled Includes Dissidents, Migrants, Muslim Uyghurs
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A police officer checks the identity card of a man as security forces keep watch on a street in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, March 24, 2017.
© 2017 Reuters/Thomas Peter(New York) – China’s police are collecting DNA from individuals for a natio...
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27 May 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News
Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are confiscating all Qurans published more than five years ago due to “extremist content,” according to local officials, amid an ongoing campaign against “illegal” religious items owned by mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghur residents.
Village chiefs from Barin township, in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) prefecture’s Peyziwat (Jia...
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10 May 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Education, Environment and Health, History, News
New reports of repression against Muslim Uyghurs in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang have emerged, as a woman was apparently detained for sharing praise for Allah on social media.
Exile group the World Uyghur Congress also told Taiwanese media that mosques in the Muslim-majority Hotan prefecture in Xinjiang have been ordered to replace a section of Friday prayer...
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10 May 2017 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Education, News, World
Uyghur students enrolled in schools outside China are being ordered by Chinese authorities to return to their hometowns by May 20, with family members in some cases held hostage to force their return, sources in Xinjiang and in Egypt say.
Launched at the end of January by authorities across the Xinjiang region, the campaign has frightened targeted students, some of whom ...