Tag: Xinjiang protests 2009

China 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 during the violent riots that engulfed Urumqi in 2009. From AP: Memetjan Abdulla, a 33-year-old journalist with the Uighur language service of China National Radio, was sentenced during a closed-door tri

December 23, 2010 11:22 PM

Censorship in Asia: Against the Tide

The Economist’s Banyan blog surveys the state of censorship in Asia, following the Malaysian Prime Minister’s

August 26, 2011 12:00 AM

China’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 fu

May 10, 2011 8:41 PM

China 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 whil

December 18, 2010 11:32 PM

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