Indian Express (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs....
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The United States has urged China to ensure fair trials after nine people were executed over ethnic unrest, throwing the spotlight on human rights ahead of President Barack Obama's Beijing visit. The US government reacted swiftly after Chinese authorities announced the first executions relating to violence in China's far western city of Urumqi in July that left at least 197 people dead.
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The United States urged China Monday to ensure fair trials after nine people were executed over ethnic unrest, throwing the spotlight on human rights ahead of President Barack Obama's Beijing visit. The US government reacted swiftly after Chinese authorities announced the first executions relating to violence in China's far western city of Urumqi in July that left at least 197 people dead.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
BEIJING — Nine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, Chinese state media reported Monday. The nine were put to death recently after a final review of the verdicts by the Supreme People's Court as required by law, the official China News Service said, but gave no specific date or other...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Beijing - Chinese authorities arrested dozens of men of the Uighur ethnic minority and held them without legal process after deadly rioting in the far western city of Urumqi in July, Human Rights Watch reported Wednesday. The US-based rights group hi...
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
(New York, October 16, 2009) - The trials of 21 defendants accused of participating in the violent July 2009 protests in Urumqi did not meet minimum international standards of due process and fair trials, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
BEIJING — China sentenced three more people to death Thursday for murders committed during riots in the far western Xinjiang region in July, bringing to nine the number of people facing execution for the unrest. Nearly 200 people were killed when Muslim Uighurs and members of China's dominant Han ethnicity turned on one another in the streets of the regional capital, Urumqi. First, Uighurs assaulted...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
A court in Urumqi, the capital of China's northwestern Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, sentenced six people to death on Thursday over July's deadly riots in the city, Xinhua said on Thursday.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Beijing - China on Thursday sentenced to death six more people convicted of murder, arson and other violent crimes during ethnic rioting that left at least 197 dead in the far-western city of Urumqi, bringing the total number of death sentences linke...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Beijing - China on Thursday sentenced to death six more people convicted of murder, arson and other violent crimes during ethnic rioting that left 197 dead in the far-western city of Urumqi, bringing the total number of death sentences linked to the ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Beijing - A court in China's far western city of Urumqi on Monday sentenced to death six men from the Uighur minority after convicting them of violent crimes during ethnic rioting that left 197 people dead in July. The Urumqi Intermediate People's Co...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
CNN: A high-ranking al Qaeda leader has called on China's minority Uyghurs to prepare for a holy war against the Chinese government. "There is no way for salvation and to lift this oppression and tyranny unless you ... seriously prepare for jihad in the name of God and carry your weapons against the ruthless brutal invader thugs," Abu Yahia Al-Libi said Wednesday in a video on an Islamist...
Danwei (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The China Daily reports on a story that Xinhua has so far not mentioned: DUBAI: A prominent Al-Qaida militant on Wednesday threatened to attack Chinese targets in "reprisal" for the July 5 riots in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. He urged Uygurs in Xinjiang to "make serious preparations" for a "holy war" against the Chinese government and called...
Danwei (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Wang Gang (王刚) author of the novel English (英格力士), a best-selling novel based on the author's childhood in Urumqi, Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution talks to Danwei's Jeremy Goldkorn. Film shot and edited by Patrick Carr of Mandarin Film . First published in 2004, the book was a surprise bestseller in China. Penguin published an English translation earlier...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
URUMQI, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- A top official of northwest ...
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