Uyghur Sentenced for Spying 2010-03-09 Political refugee—a former mayor—collected information for China. AFP Stockholm harbor, Jan. 27, 2010. STOCKLHOLM—A Swedish court has sentenced an ethnic Uyghur refugee to 16 months in prison for spying on fellow Uyghur refugees and passing information ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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" ...