Those who have been silenced for too long, tell their personal stories. Three lives, three different generations, but engaged in the same struggle towards finding peace for the Uyghurs living in the Xinjiang Province in China. UNPO introduces Voices From…East Turkestan. Voices from….Uyghurs By ...
Riots leave many dead in China Violence in China's restive western region of Xinjiang has left at least 156 people dead and more than 800 people injured, state media say. Several hundred people were arrested after a protest, in the city of Urumqi on Sunday, turned violent. Beijing says Uighurs went ...
"From Gitmo to Paradise!" So came the news via MSNBC last week, echoing the upbeat tone of so many covering the sudden transfer of four Uighur prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Bermuda. Broadcasting images of beaming bearded men in bucolic surroundings, the happy-ending narrative offered by the ...
Most analyses of the Sino-Russian strategic partnership focus either on Russian arms sales to China or on the joint military exercises conducted by Moscow and Beijing under the auspices of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which limits the scope of the analytical framework to a ...
The family of an exiled Uyghur leader is evicted by authorities in China who plan to demolish their building. HONG KONG and WASHINGTON—The family home of prominent Uyghur exile leader Rebiya Kadeer in northwestern China has been slated for demolition and her family has been served with an eviction ...
Hundreds of Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Thursday to mourn those who died in violent clashes in the neighbouring Xinjiang region of China last month and to call for its independence. Kazakhstan is home to the largest Uighur community outside China. About 500 people, many ...
KEVIN Rudd today strongly asserted Australia's right to determine who enters the country amid the fallout over the visit by a woman China regards as a terrorist. The Prime Minister defended the granting of a visa to Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, a decision Foreign Minister Stephen Smith has ...
Controls over religious practice in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang--home to the Uyghurs and other ethnic groups--are often harsher than those found elsewhere in China. The regional government is currently considering legislation that would tighten formal legal prohibitions over children's ...
The Chinese government strictly regulates religious practice in China, and controls over religion in the Muslim-majority western region of Xinjiang, where Uyghurs and other ethnic groups live, are especially tight. As this analysis shows, in recent months, some local governments in Xinjiang have ...
Rebiya Kadeer, uncrowned leader of the Uyghur minority persecuted in China, says that the Chinese are "psychologically torturing" her children who have openly criticized her human rights campaign. The Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer has accused the Chinese government of "psychologically torturing" ...