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14 July 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News, World
A court in Indonesia has sentenced three Uyghur men to six years in prison and a $7,500 fine after convicting them on charges of attempting to join a local terrorist group and of entering the country illegally.
Their lawyer, Asludin Hatjani, said the prosecution had failed to furnish direct evidence linking his clients to terrorism. He argued they were Turkish citizens v...
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10 July 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Education, News
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Thailand on Friday closed its embassy and consulate in Turkey after a protest against its deportation of Uighur Muslims to China, as the US warned the minority could face "harsh treatment" on their return.
The temporary closure of Thailand's embassy in Ankara and consulate in Istanbul comes after anti-Chinese demonstrators stormed the latter, damaging f...
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09 July 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News, World
More than 90 ethnic Uyghurs, including women and children, are facing immediate deportation from Thailand, where they have been detained for more than a year for illegally entering the country while fleeing persecution in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, a Uyghur exile group said Wednesday.
In a statement, the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress (WUC) cited a source ...
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02 July 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News, Religion, World
A group of 173 ethnic Uyghur women and children have arrived in Turkey for resettlement after being detained for more than a year by Thai immigration authorities for illegally entering the country while fleeing persecution in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region, sources said Wednesday.
Seyit Tumturk, vice president of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, told...
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30 June 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News, World
Ethnic Ugyhurs who attacked a police post in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region last week were members of a Muslim family who had become increasingly devout as they struggled for almost 10 years to make a living after losing land to Han Chinese in what they considered an unfair business deal, sources said.
The June 22 incident, in which police at a traffic che...
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27 June 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, World
A young ethnic Uyghur woman detained by Chinese police in February while attempting to flee the country to join her husband in Turkey has died in police custody in her native Xinjiang, according to sources in the region and in exile.
Tursungul, 32 and described as healthy before she was taken into custody, died shortly after being taken to the Shaptol Township police sta...
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24 June 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News, World
At least 18 people are dead following a knife and bomb attack by a group of ethnic Uyghurs on a police traffic checkpoint in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region, sources said Tuesday, amid harsh restrictions on observance of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
One source said the incident, which occurred Monday in the Tahtakoruk district of southwestern Xinjiang’...
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22 June 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News, Religion
Authorities in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region have shot dead at least eight ethnic minority Uyghur “suspects,” according to local officials, after a herdsman raised an alarm over “suspicious” strangers gathered by a local riverbed.
The group had “suspiciously gathered” on June 10 at a river valley outside of Duwa township, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) pre...
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17 June 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, News, World
A nine-year-old Muslim Uyghur girl living in Turkey has called for help from the international community to be reunited with five family members detained in Thailand for more than a year after illegally entering the country while escaping persecution in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region.
Rahlia—who escaped from a Thai immigration detention center in September along wi...
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03 June 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Religion, World
An incident involving the killing of three female relatives of a Uyghur suspect who was arrested during China’s most recent “strike hard” campaign has come to light in the wake of recent reports by state media that authorities had foiled scores of “terrorist” plots in the country’s restive northwest.
Police in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu) prefecture in Xinjiang killed the wi...
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29 May 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News
Authorities in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region shot and killed two young Uyghur minority men who launched a crude bomb attack on a police patrol, sources said Thursday, and have ordered local residents to join a search for four others who fled the scene.
A young Uyghur woman who lives with her family in Zawa township, in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefectur...
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29 May 2015 All Headlines, News, Uncategorized
Uyghurs from all parts of northwestern China are relying on networks of Chinese smugglers to take them across the border into neighboring Southeast Asian countries en route to their final destination Turkey, according to those who have been caught and detained in Thailand, a key way station.
Nearly 370 Uyghurs — Turkic-speaking, ethnic Muslims from China’s Xinjiang Uyghu...