CHINA has begun sentencing 20 more ethnic Uighurs - some to death - for their part in riots which left 197 people dead in the remote western city of Urumqi on July 5, as the second batch of trials of more than 1200 people arrested as a result of the carnage began today, with at least one man sent ...
Deported Uyghur Had Cambodian Visa
WASHINGTON—One of 20 ethnic Uyghur asylum-seekers deported from Cambodia to China as illegal migrants entered the country legally and on the advice of U.N. refugee officials, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has learned. Aikebaerjiang Tuniyaz, 27, left China in March 2009 after serving a one-year jail term in ...
China: Halt death sentences against Uighurs
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE 3rd December 2009 China: Halt death sentences against Uighurs China’s supreme court must carefully review reported death sentences imposed today on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China. ...
German police raid homes of suspected Chinese spies
German police raid homes of suspected Chinese spies Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Clashes between Uighurs and ethnic Han in China this year led to heightened security German police have raided the homes of four Chinese nationals alleged to have spied on Muslim Uighurs living ...
Five sentenced to death over deadly China riots
A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced five people to death for murder and other crimes over deadly ethnic riots in July, state media said. Two other people were sentenced to life imprisonment, Xinhua news agency said. Nine people were executed last month over the riots in which nearly 200 ...
Uyghur Asylum Bid in Cambodia
Ethnic Uyghurs flee China through Vietnam to seek asylum in Cambodia. Sent by a witness. Demonstrators march in Urumqi, July 5, 2009. PHNOM PENH—China has tightened its southeastern border after several groups of ethnic Uyghurs managed to bribe their way into Vietnam and then Cambodia to avoid ...