Cambodia to Expel Uighur Asylum-Seekers from China (Updated)
The group of 22 Uighurs who escaped to Cambodia will be deported. News of their deportation follows reports that China disputed the United Nations’ refugee system. From the Associated Press: A group of...
View ArticleMore Uighurs Sentenced To Death In China
From The Australian: 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...
View ArticleXinjiang Security Funding Increased by 90 Percent
From China Daily: Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region government plans to increase its spending on public security by almost 90 percent this year compared to last year to further maintain social stability...
View ArticleChina Sentences 4 More to Death Over Ethnic Riots
AP reports that four more people have been sentenced to death for their role in the Xinjiang riots over the summer: The Intermediate People’s Court in Urumqi handed down death sentences Monday to four...
View ArticleChina Hints at Trials for 20 Seeking Asylum
The Chinese government has indicated that a group of Uighurs deported from Cambodia after seeking asylum there may be put on trial, the New York Times reports: “China is a country ruled by law,” Ma...
View ArticleAP Exclusive: Uighurs Flee China After Riots
The AP has interviewed Uighur refugees who fled China after riots last year and are now seeking asylum in other countries: Nearly a year after the worst riots in China’s far west in more than a decade,...
View ArticleShaoguan, One Year On
Just over a year ago, a violent lash broke out between Uighur and Han workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan. The following week, violent riots erupted in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur...
View ArticleFar West China Tense but Quiet Year after Riots
A year ago today, Urumqi erupted in violence as a clash broke out between ethnic Uighurs and Han Chinese. Reuters reports on the scene in the city one year later: A year on, the streets of Urumqi were...
View ArticleChina Pressed to Account for Uighurs’ Fate
Twenty Uighurs who fled China in the wake of rioting in Xinjiang in July 2009 were deported from Cambodia a year ago while waiting to receive asylum from the U.S. Since returning to China, they have...
View ArticleChina Sentences Uighur to Life for Reporting Riots
Last week an investigative journalist in Xinjiang was beaten and is now brain dead in a hospital. And now news that another journalist in Xinjiang has been sentenced to life in prison for his role...
View ArticleChina’s Sharper Focus on Internal Security
While uprisings in the Middle East were an immediate trigger, roots of the current crackdown in China can also be seen further back, in the unrest in Tibet in 2008 and Xinjiang in 2009. At the...
View ArticleCensorship in Asia: Against the Tide
The Economist’s Banyan blog surveys the state of censorship in Asia, following the Malaysian Prime Minister’s conclusion that “in today’s borderless, interconnected world, censoring newspapers and...
View ArticleUnrest In Xinjiang Incites Military Crackdown
The BBC reports that following days of unrest in the Xinjiang region that included an attack on a police station in Hotan on Friday, Chinese officials have increased operations by enacting a...
View ArticleFour Years After Xinjiang Riots, Grievances Unanswered
Choi Chi-yuk reports from Urumqi ahead of the anniversary on Friday of riots in 2009, in which at least 197 people were killed. With Mandy Zuo at South China Morning Post: A bus stop has been built on...
View ArticleBlood, Fear and Hip-Hop in Xinjiang
At ChinaFile, James Palmer mounts a wide-ranging exploration of tensions between China’s Han majority and the Uighur inhabitants of Xinjiang. He discusses the deadly 2009 riots and subsequent outbreaks...
View ArticleUyghur Scholar Seized by Police, Says Website
Amid an atmosphere of turbulence and unrest in China’s Xinjiang region, central authorities have announced that regional policy will see a “major shift” towards maintaining social stability. The...
View ArticleTen Years Later: The Urumqi Riots Marked a Turning Point
Ten years ago on July 5, 2009, riots broke out in Urumqi, Xinjiang, in response to a conflict between Uyghur and Han workers in Guangdong. Two Uyghur workers were killed by an angry mob at a factory in...
View ArticleCDT Weekly, February 12-18: Ilham Tohti, Xinjiang, and Why Clubhouse Had to Die
Welcome to the second edition of CDT’s weekly roundup, also available as an email newsletter through Substack. With these updates, we aim to provide an overview of new content across CDT’s English and...
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