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Uighur Update: Protests Go International

While little new information has come out since Chinese officials confirmed the stifling of a protest by Uighurs in Hotan on Wednesday, word of the unrest appears to have brought expatriate Uighurs into the fold of Olympic torch protestors. According to AP, six were detained when they disrupted the torch relay on its way through Istanbul: The demonstrators were detained after they broke away from