STOP HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AGAINST UIGHURS IN CHINA 5 February 2010 CALL ON THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES TO PROTECT AND RESPECT UIGHURS' RIGHTS The police crackdown on peaceful Uighur demonstrations in Urumqi in July 2009 echoed incidents from the past, including the violent repression ...
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 ...
BEIJING, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A Chinese court in the restive far western region of Xinjiang on Monday sentenced six people to death for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic rioting in July in which almost 200 people were killed. It was not immediately clear from the brief report by the ...
HONG KONG—Relatives of a man who died in police custody in China’s remote Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are in a tense standoff with authorities over their demand for an inquiry into how he died, villagers and the local police chief said. One villager, contacted by telephone, said eight trucks ...
Heavy-handed police tactics by the Chinese turned a peaceful assembly into a bloodbath. By REBIYA KADEER When the Chinese government looks back on its handling of the unrest in Urumqi and East Turkestan this week, it will most likely tell the world that it acted in the interests of maintaining ...