On Tuesday, International Human Rights Day, spokesperson Hua Chunying mounted a familiar defense of China’s rights record at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ regular press conference: Q: It’s the Human Rights...
Human rights NGO Amnesty International has released an “urgent action” call for the...
Chinese President Xi Jinping makes his first state visit to the United Kingdom this week, with...
Chinese police have labeled Monday’s jeep crash and fire in Tiananmen Square a...
On a visit to Japan for a series of speeches, exiled Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer lamented the ongoing violence in Xinjiang and said she is now pessimistic about new president Xi Jinping’s ability to ease ethnic...
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Japan’s granting Rebiya Kadeer, an exiled Uighur leader, an entry visa has sparked tensions between China and Japan. Despite the two countries unified stance on North Korea, they seem to be falling out over Uighurs. The...
From Reuters: China will deal with 20 ethnic Uighurs who were deported from Cambodia over the weekend as illegal immigrants, praising relations with the Southeast Asian country as a model of good cooperation. The comments came...
The New York Times looks at the war of words between the Chinese government and Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer, who has enjoyed the international spotlight ever since China’s leaders blamed her for the violence in Urumqi...
According to news reports, Taiwan has stopped exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer from visiting the island. From Reuters: Kadeer, a former businesswoman who now leads exile group the World Uyghur Congress, wanted to come in...
In the latest example of the Chinese government trying (and sometimes succeeding) in imposing censorship over cultural events overseas, the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has rescheduled a showing of The Ten Conditions of Love, a...
Three buildings in Urumqi owned and lived in by the family of exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer are to be demolished as reports of syringe attacks in the city continue, Reuters reports: The government ordered shops and...
From the CBC: A film festival in Taiwan has announced it will be screening a documentary about the exiled leader of China’s Uighur minority, in a move that’s bound to upset the Chinese government. Organizers at the...
Tensions between Australia and China are high following the arrest of Australian citizen Stern Hu and a visit to Australia by exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer. After pressuring Melboure Film Festival organizers to cancel a...
The outrage and controversy in China over the showing of a documentary about Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer at a film festival in Australia has only spiked demand for and interest in the film, the New York Times reports: The...
“The alleged instigator of the Uighur riots doesn’t talk like a terrorist. Demonizing her may backfire on Beijing.” From the Wall Street Journal: Rebiya Kadeer is undergoing a Chinese version of George Orwell’s “Two...
Following the release of a letter purportedly written by family members of Rebiya Kadeer which blamed her for the violence in Urumqi a month ago, the Chinese government is continuing the campaign by broadcasting interviews with...
From guardian.co.uk: China stepped up pressure on the exiled Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer , saying two of her children and her brother had written letters condemning her for orchestrating last month’s riots in Urumqi, the...
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