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19 January 2016 Culture and Art, Education, Friends of Uyghurs, History, Video Gallery, World
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19 January 2016 Argument, Video Gallery, World
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15 January 2016 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Environment and Health, News, Religion, World
Three police officers have been added to a list of security personnel known to have been killed during an operation in November in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, bringing the reported total to nine, according to a Chinese police social media posting obtained by RFA’s Uyghur Service.
The officers, including two Han Chinese officers and one ethnic Uyghur auxiliary poli...
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09 January 2016 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News, World
Police in three prefectures in northwest China’s restive Xinjiang region have stepped up and extended security checks of ethnic Uyghurs who use smartphones into the new year to ensure stability in the area, local police and Uyghur residents said.
Police in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) manned security checkpoints in Hotan for 24 hours when the new year began to check smartp...
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04 January 2016 All Headlines, Argument, Article Reasoning, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News, Religion, World
By ANDREW JACOBSJAN. 2, 2016
KASHGAR, China — Families sundered by a wave of detentions. Mosques barred from broadcasting the call to prayer. Restrictions on the movements of laborers that have wreaked havoc on local agriculture. And a battery of ever more intrusive ways to monitor the communications of citizens for possible threats to public security.
A recent 10-day jou...
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30 December 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Education, News, Religion, World
As China's parliament passed a controversial new terrorism law on Sunday, police in the southern city of Guangzhou issued orders to be on the alert for "suspects" wearing Islamic symbols who "usually attack after morning prayers."
A directive from the Guangzhou police department dated Dec. 24 announced a terror alert running through Jan. 2, and advised officers of the "d...
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24 December 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Education, News, World
A court in the Chinese capital on Tuesday handed down a guilty verdict and a suspended jail term to a prominent rights lawyer on charges of "incitement to ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination" and "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble" after he fired off seven highly critical tweets to social media.
The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court issued the guilty v...
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15 December 2015 All Headlines, Article Reasoning, News, World
Climbing rates of HIV infection in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, with the early spread of the disease driven mainly by drug use, are now the result of a burgeoning sex trade in the region’s mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghur south, sources say.
The southern prefectures of Hoten (in Chinese, Hotien) and Kashgar (Kashi) have been especially hard hit, sources say, with gro...
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09 December 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News, Religion
Two women related to a suspected ring leader of a deadly attack at a coal mine in northwest China’s troubled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are facing “harsh punishment” for not revealing his plan to authorities ahead of time, according to local sources.
The attack occurred on Sept. 18, when a group of knife-wielding suspects set upon security guards at the gate of th...
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25 November 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News
Eleven of the 28 members of what China said was a “terrorist group” killed by police in a recently announced raid in northwestern China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region are believed to have been women and children, according to local sources.
Last week, Chinese official media reported that police killed the 28 people following a two-month manhunt for suspects in a deadly ...
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03 November 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News
Cotton production is falling this year across northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, as ethnic Uyghur farmers are diverted from their work to attend political indoctrination classes or are compelled to contribute unpaid labor to government projects, sources say.
Restrictions imposed following ethnic clashes last year between Uyghurs and majority Han Chinese in Yarkand (in...
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03 November 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News, World
Authorities in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have expelled the former editor of an official regional newspaper for failing to toe the line set down by the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, his former paper reported on Monday.
Zhao Xinwei, 58, former editor-in-chief of party's regional Xinjiang Daily newspaper, now faces prosecution after being...