Imprisoned Uighur Scholar Receives Literary Honor
Ilham Tohti, the economist and activist imprisoned by Chinese authorities, has been awarded a Freedom to Write Award by the PEN American Center.
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Uyghur Farmers Detained After Posting Land Complaints Online
Three Uyghur farmers campaigning for compensation for land confiscated in their village in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region were detained and taken away to another city this week after posting a statement outlining their grievances online, farmers said.
Chinese Police Freeze Bank Accounts of Uyghur Dissident
Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have frozen the bank accounts of a detained outspoken ethnic minority Uyghur scholar, leaving his family with no money to live on, according to his wife.
Beijing Finds Neither ‘Iron-Fisted Rule’ Nor Development Bring Order to Xinjiang
On March 1, a group of Uighurs from Xinjiang attacked the Kunming train station in southwest China using foot-long knives, killing 29 and injuring 143. The terror attack, popularly referred to as “China’s 9/11,” is a spillover from Xinjiang’s internal conflict.
‘Expulsion’ of Uighurs still denied by officials
Border police yesterday continued to deny their alleged involvement in detaining and subsequently deporting a group of 15 ethnic Uighurs to Thailand – where they were arrested – even as a prominent Uighur rights group condemned the Kingdom’s track record in dealing with the Turkic ethnic minority.
Branded terrorists by China, 'Uighur' refugees face torture if returned, rights groups warn
Depending on who is speaking, about 300 refugees being detained in Thailand are either committed terrorists or terrified families. Although local media Monday uncritically repeated Chinese assertions they are “terrorists” on the way to train in Turkey, refugee advocates say the group widely believed to be Chinese Uighurs - most of whom are women and children - are fleeing violence and abuse at home in China’s Xinjiang province.
Fissures in China’s Ethnic Policy
The Chinese man spying on the daughter of a prominent political prisoner at the United Nations in Geneva last week probably didn’t expect to be expelled from the international body.
Criminals Run Thailand's Trafficking Gangs, Says Campaigning Commander
Organised crime was a part of Thailand's human trafficking problem, Thailand's Immigration Division 6 Commander, Police Major General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, said yesterday.
HRW says Uighurs detained, expelled
A group of 15 ethnic minority Uighurs fleeing China who were arrested in the Thai border province of Sa Kaeo on Sunday morning had been detained by authorities in Cambodia hours earlier, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.
Clocks Square Off in Chinese-occupied Territory
Waking up every morning to a pile of emails sent from the Asia, Europe, and Africa makes me think about time zones. Living in California, it seems that we are behind virtually all the rest of world. All business phone calls must be made in the morning before offices close in other time zones. Such is the physical geography of time.
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