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25 April 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Religion
Who lives in Xinjiang?
The ethnic Uighur population used to be the majority in China's Xinjiang regionThe largest of China's administrative regions, Xinjiang borders eight countries - Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - and until recently its population was mostly Uighur.
Most Uighurs are Muslim and Islam is an...
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25 April 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, Environment and Health, News
Nine months after a police officer shot to death an unarmed Uyghur man in northwest China’s restive Xinjiang region, local authorities have said that the suspect never committed a crime against the government, although he was accused of being a “troublemaker.”
Memet Abdurehim, 26, was arrested on July 27 at his home in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture’s Shayar (Shaya)...
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24 April 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Education, Environment and Health, Friends of Uyghurs, İlham Tohti, News
By Ilham Tohti, published: April 6, 2014
On January 15, 2014, Chinese authorities arrested Ilham Tohti, a Uighur economics professor at the prestigious Minzu University in Beijing. Authorities formally charged him with separatism on February 25, and have so far denied him access to his attorney. For years, Tohti has discussed and commented on not only Chinese policies in...
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24 April 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Environment and Health, İlham Tohti
By Ilham Tohti, translated by Cindy Carter, published: April 22, 2015
This article, a total of 24,000 words in Chinese, was first posted on the Daxiong Gonghui (“大象公会”) website after the Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s arrest in January, 2014. Daxiong Gonghui described the origin of the article in a note: “This document was written by Ilham Tohti, associate professor of eco...
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16 April 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News
Uyghur groups and netizens have denounced an internal notice issued by a hospital in Nanning warning staff about a possible terrorist attack by “suspicious persons,” a euphemism, they said, for the Turkic-speaking, Muslim residents of northwest China’s turbulent Xinjiang region.
Guangxi Autonomous Regional Maternal and Child Care Hospital in Nanning issued an official se...
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14 April 2015 News
[Global Times reporter Qiu Yongzheng in the text] successive Turkish Armed Forces issued a statement today, said the Turkish border guards arrested for allegedly participating in the 'Islamic State' (IS) of Chinese terrorist suspects in Turkey and Syria border area. Currently, these suspects were arrested in China still In an interview with the Turkish official investigatio...
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09 April 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News, World
A court in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region has sentenced a prominent ethnic Uyghur Muslim religious scholar to nine years behind bars for “refusing to cooperate” with Chinese authorities, according to police and local officials.
According to reports on Uyghur social media, Qamber Amber was handed nine years in prison following a March 21 public trial at the ...
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08 April 2015 All Headlines, News, World
BEIJING — A provincial court in southwestern China announced on Tuesday that the authorities had executed three men for carrying outa knife attack last year on civilians in a crowded train station in which 31 people were killed and 141 wounded.
The court, in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, said on its microblog that the men were Iskandar Ehet, Turgun Tohtunyaz and H...
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08 April 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News
Authorities in northwest China’s restive Xinjiang region have killed three people and jailed two others from an ethnic Uyghur family during a three-month operation targeting suspected terrorists, according to state media and a relative of one of those killed.
A verdict issued by the Purchaqchi township court in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Hotan county in late...
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02 April 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News
Authorities in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region have demolished the home of an ethnic Uyghur Muslim family that had served as an underground school for Quranic studies, according to local officials and residents.
On March 24, officials from Qarasay town in Hotan (Hetian) prefecture’s Qaraqash (in Chinese, Moyu) county ordered some 500 local villagers to watch...
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30 March 2015 All Headlines, News, Religion, World
A court in Thailand on Friday rejected claims that a family of 17 suspected ethnic Muslim Uyghurs held by immigration authorities for a year had been illegally detained, as the group’s lawyer and supporters vowed to appeal the ruling.
The group of four adults and 13 children—two of whom were born in custody—were detained by police in Thailand after they illegally entered...
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30 March 2015 Argument, Education, Friends of Uyghurs, News, Uncategorized
Authorities in an area known for violence between ethnic minority Uyghurs and Han Chinese in China’s restive, far-western Xinjiang region put on trial 25 people who were teaching Islamic religious studies or sending their children to schools that offered such classes, local officials said.
The Uyghurs involved were taken to a public square in handcuffs and shackles to st...