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  Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations

  22 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, E-Books, İlham Tohti, News, Religion

  Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (Complete text) By Ilham Tohti Translated by Cindy Carter ChinaChange.org Editor’s Note: This article, a total of 24,000 characters in Chinese, was first posted on the Daxiong Gonghui (大象公会) website sometime after the Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s arrest in January, 2014. ...
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  China Releases Rights Lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang’s Niece, ‘On Bail’

  20 May 2015 All Headlines, Friends of Uyghurs, News, World

  Authorities in the Chinese capital have released Qu Zhenhong, niece and former defense attorney of jailed rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, on "bail," her lawyers said. Qu was initially held in May 2014 under criminal detention on suspicion of "illegally gathering citizens' information," after she agreed to represent Pu, who was indicted for "incitement to racial hatred" and "p...
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  China Indicts Top Rights Lawyer on Ethnic Hatred Charge

  16 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News

  Authorities in the Chinese capital on Friday indicted a prominent rights lawyer for "incitement to racial hatred" after holding him in detention for more than a year, paving the way for a trial, his lawyer said. Pu Zhiqiang, 50, is being charged with "incitement to racial hatred," and "picking quarrels and stirring up trouble," a year after his detention following an eve...
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  Tibetans, Uyghurs ‘Blacklisted’ at Hotels in Chinese Cities

  15 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News

  Tibetans and members of the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group have been placed on a security blacklist when they seek hotel rooms in major Chinese cities, with staff informing local police stations when they try to check in, sources told RFA on Thursday. An employee who answered the phone at a Beijing branch of the homegrown Homeinns hotel chains confirmed that the hotel...
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  Six Dead, Four Injured in Two Successive Suicide Attacks in China’s Xinjiang

  14 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News, World

  Two successive suicide bombing attacks have killed six people and injured four others at a security checkpoint station in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region, according to area police officials. The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and thr...
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  Passports in Xinjiang’s Ili To Be Handed Into Police Stations: China

  14 May 2015 All Headlines, News, Religion

  Authorities in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have stopped issuing new passports, and are recalling all existing passports to be held by police, amid a widening security clampdown by the ruling Chinese Communist Party, officials told RFA. "All residents of the district who have passports must hand in their passports before May 15," an April 30 notice is...
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  China Issues Arrest Warrant For Nine Uyghurs Near Mongolian Border

  09 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News, World

  Chinese authorities in Inner Mongolia have detained at least two Uyghur youths who were planning to leave the country illegally, local sources said on Friday. A copy of the arrest warrant issued by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region police department named the nine men—all of whom appear relatively young from their photos—as Abliz Obul, Eli Turdi, Yusup Ghojiabla, Yasi...
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  Chinese Authorities Order Muslim Uyghur Shop Owners to Stock Alcohol, Cigarettes

  06 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News

  Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have ordered shop owners and restaurateurs in a mainly Muslim Uyghur village to sell alcohol and cigarettes or face closure of their establishments, despite a public backlash against the products discouraged by followers of Islam, an official source said. Last week, authorities in Laskuy township, in Hotan (in Chinese, ...
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  Present-Day Ethnic Problems in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region: Overview and Recommendations (2) – Bilingual Education

  02 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, İlham Tohti, News

  By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 23, 2015   II. Bilingual Education Overview Besides unemployment, the issue that provokes the most intense reaction within Xinjiang’s Uighur community is the issue of bilingual education. In practice, “bilingual education” in Xinjiang has essentially become “monolingual education” (i.e. Mandarin-o...
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  Death of Boy in Thailand Highlights Plight of Hundreds of Uyghur Detainees

  30 April 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News

  Five months after the death in custody of a three-year old ethnic Uyghur boy in southern Thailand, questions remain over the circumstances leading to his demise and the conditions facing some 370 other Uyghur refugees detained for more than a year after fleeing northwestern China’s Xinjiang region. Abdullah Abduweli had been receiving treatment for tuberculosis—a highly ...
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  Uyghur-Canadian Interrogated, Pressured to Spy For Chinese Authorities

  29 April 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News

  A Canadian national of Uyghur ethnicity says he was harshly interrogated and pressured to spy on the Uyghur community back home during a recent trip to meet with relatives in northwest China’s Xinjiang region. Erkin Qurban, who in 1999 moved to Canada, where he lives in Montreal working as a truck driver, told RFA’s Uyghur Service that the public security bureau in the X...
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  Uighur children a musician who -Vedio

  25 April 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, Video Gallery

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lQilaw755M...