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  Top Xinjiang Editor Expelled From China’s Communist Party For ‘Opposing Party Line

  03 November 2015 All Headlines, Culture and Art, Friends of Uyghurs, News, World

  Authorities in China's troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have expelled the former editor of an official regional newspaper for failing to toe the line set down by the ruling Chinese Communist Party in Beijing, his former paper reported on Monday. Zhao Xinwei, 58, former editor-in-chief of party's regional Xinjiang Daily newspaper, now faces prosecution after being...
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  İLHAM TOHTI

  27 October 2015 All Headlines, İlham Tohti, News, Video Gallery, World

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  Township in Xinjiang Keeps ‘Personal Archive’ of Uyghurs Who Flee Region

  20 October 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News, World

  Authorities in an ethnic Uyghur township in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have created files to track the identities and whereabouts of suspect persons and others who have left the area, sometimes simply to find work in other parts of China, one of those responsible for maintaining the system said. The system was set up last year in Yengi’eriq township in Aksu (in...
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  Authorities Identify 17 Suspects in Deadly Attack at Xinjiang Mine

  17 October 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Education, News, World

  Authorities in northwest China’s troubled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have identified 17 suspects from three families suspected of carrying out an apparent revenge attack that left 50 people dead and injured 50 others at a coal mine, a local official said. The suspects are relatives of the three men who are believed to have been behind the Sept. 18 attack at the So...
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  Suspects in Xinjiang Mine Attack Sought Explosives: Guard

  09 October 2015 All Headlines, Article Reasoning, News, World

  Alleged “separatists” who orchestrated a knife attack which left 50 people dead and injured 50 others at a coal mine in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region had sought to steal the facility’s explosives, according to local security guards. The attack occurred on Sept. 18, when a group of knife-wielding suspects set upon security guards at the g...
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  Knife Attack at Xinjiang Coal Mine Leaves 40 Dead, Injured

  30 September 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Environment and Health, News

  A knife attack orchestrated by alleged “separatists” at a coal mine in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has resulted in at least 40 casualties, including the deaths of five police officers, and several suspects are believed to be on the run, according to local security officials. The attack began at around 3:00 a.m. on Sept. 18 when a group...
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  Chinese Authorities Ban Muslim Names Among Uyghurs in Hoten

  30 September 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News

  The official announcement banning 22 Muslim first names in Hotan prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang region, has been widely circulated on social media.   Chinese authorities have issued a ban on 22 Muslim names in Hoten prefecture in northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in an apparent bid to discourage extremism among the region's U...
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  A Voice From China’s Uighur Homeland, Reporting From the U.S.

  09 September 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, Education, News, World

  Shohret Hoshur at the Radio Free Asia office in Washington. He said, “I cannot leave. They took such risks. In such a situation, how can I?” CreditZach Gibson/The New York Times WASHINGTON — IN December 1994, Shohret Hoshur, then a 29-year-old journalist in a remote corner of the far western Chinese region of Xinjiang, said goodbye to his homeland. After writing two arti...
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  SONG FOR MR. ILHAM TOHTI ( UNTIL YOU´RE HOME AGAIN )- Joe Hamilton

  29 July 2015 All Headlines, Argument, İlham Tohti, News, Video Gallery, World

    https://youtu.be/OY_NOnSFxzM YOU POSSESS THE STRENGTH AND THE QUALITY TO BRING THE CHANGE WE NEED YOU DESERVE RESPECT AND EQUALITY FOR FRIENDSHIP IS YOUR CREED WHERE THERE´S LOVE THERE IS LIGHT OUR LAMPS AND CANDLES WILL BURN UNTIL YOU RETURN WHERE THERE ARE SKIES WE WILL WRITE YOUR NAME AND THAT´S WHERE YOU WILL REMAIN UNTIL YOU´RE HOME AGAIN ALL T...
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  Beijing ‘Unfit’ to Stage 2022 Olympics: Ethnic Minority Groups

  29 July 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News, World

  Ethnic minority groups are calling on the International Olympic Committee not to award the 2022 Winter Games to Beijing, saying that China’s rights record actually worsened as a result of the 2008 Summer Games hosted by Beijing. Beijing, which will go head-to-head with Kazakhstan's capital Almaty in a July 31 vote for the right to host the Winter Games, didn’t just fail ...
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  Chinese Consulate Pays Off Uyghurs in Pakistan For Dirt on Activists

  25 July 2015 All Headlines, Argument, Culture and Art, News, World

  Chinese consulate officials in Pakistan are distributing money to Uyghurs based there in exchange for information about activists campaigning against Chinese rule in the ethnic Muslim minority’s homeland in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, according to local sources. On July 19, Chinese consulates in Rawalpindi and Gilgit, in the north of Pakistan, held events to ma...
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  China Says it Holds Two “Violent Terrorists” After Police Shootout in Zhejiang

  25 July 2015 All Headlines, Argument, News, World

  Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang have detained two people they described as "violent terrorists," police said in a statement on Friday. Police had seized explosives and weapons, including knives, from the unidentified men in a dawn raid around 5.00 a.m. local time, Zhejiang's Wenzhou municipal police department said in a tweet on its official micro...