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 ...
China sentences six to death over Xinjiang riots
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 ...
China lays first charges over Xinjiang riots
BEIJING (Reuters) - China announced the first charges to be laid in connection with violent unrest in July that shook China's northwest region of Xinjiang, home to Muslim Uighurs. Twenty-one people had been charged with murder, arson, robbery and damaging property during ethnic riots that erupted in ...
Guantanamo Envoy: U.S. Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held
In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Daniel Fried came across as an eminently reasonable man placed in a disturbingly unreasonable position by his bosses. A senior diplomat, who was the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs for four years, Fried was plucked from his job ...
Uighurs and China’s Social Justice Problem
Recent ethnic clashes between Han Chinese and ethnically Turkic Uighurs in western China's Xinjiang Province left a reported 156 people dead and prompted authorities to send thousands of troops to restore order. The violence, following major riots in Tibet last spring between ethnic Tibetans and Han ...
Kazakhstan’s Uighurs rally to mourn Xinjiang dead
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 ...