Explosions at a crowded market killed 31 people and injured 94 others on Thursday morning in Urumqi, the capital of the restive Xinjiang region of China, in what officials called a “violent terrorist attack.” It was the deadliest burst of violence this year, highlighting a growing challenge to ...
Thursday morning a series of explosions ripped through a crowded market in Urumqi, capital of the northwestern region of Xinjiang, killing 31 people and injuring 94. The incident was labeled a “violent terrorist attack,” and President Xi Jinping vowed to “severely punish terrorists and spare no ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Explosives hurled from two vehicles which ploughed into an open market in China's troubled Xinjiang region killed 31 people on Thursday, state media reported, the deadliest act of violence in the region in years. China called the attack in the regional capital of Urumqi a ...
Uighur protesters imprisoned in the Netherlands Published: 9 July 2009 18:40 | Changed: 10 July 2009 09:21 By AP, NRC, RNW The district court in the Hague has convicted 14 protesters for throwing stones at the Chinese embassy and has sentenced them to jail terms ranging from a ...
A Uyghur religious leader jailed in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region has entered the third month of a hunger strike after he was slapped with a fifth prison term, prompting concerns over his health from family members and rights groups. Abdukiram Abduveli, 59, was first sentenced in 1993 to 12 ...
Chinese citizens do not get to vote, deal with censorship daily and live in a one-party state, but they’ve long had one thing many Western societies could not match: a country safe from political violence, where terrorism and threats from radical movements were unheard of. But now, a changing ...
China has seen 10 "terrorist incidents" in the past year that have killed more than 30 people, according to official media, which has blamed most of the violence on ethnic minority “Uyghur separatists.” While authorities have worked to shut off the flow of information from the affected areas, it ...
