Translation: Remembering a Narrow Escape
Last month on her QQ Kuaibao account, writer Li Juan shared her memory of a tense experience...
Urumqi protests 2009
Josh Summers on New Travel Guide and Life in Xinjiang
As mounting violence in recent years has led to an ongoing security crackdown in Xinjiang, the...
Four Years After Xinjiang Riots, Grievances Unanswered
Choi Chi-yuk reports from Urumqi ahead of the anniversary on Friday of riots in 2009, in which at least 197 people were killed. With Mandy Zuo at South China Morning Post: A bus stop has been built on the Jiefang South Road...
Word of the Week: Yax Lizard
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by Chinese netizens and frequently encountered in online political discussions. These are the words of China’s online...
Unrest In Xinjiang Incites Military Crackdown
The BBC reports that following days of unrest in the Xinjiang region that included an attack on a police station in Hotan on Friday, Chinese officials have increased operations by enacting a twenty-four hour patrol of the...
Catching A Whiff Of Jasmine In Kashgar
TWO fire engines stood parked by the road leading past Kashgar’s main mosque. They were clearly not deployed to fight any fires. Atop one sat a helmeted officer behind a shield. The nozzle of the vehicle’s water hose...
In Restive Chinese Area, Cameras Keep Watchful Eye
From the New York Times: Roughly a year ago, Urumqi’s ethnic Han and Uighur populations took part in the worst ethnic rioting in modern Chinese history, killing at least 197 people… Now at least 47,000 cameras scan Urumqi...
Police on Alert in China Ahead of Riot Anniversary
As the one-year anniversary of the July 5 Xinjiang riots approaches, police are on high alert. From the Associated Press: Teams of police armed with guns and batons patrolled streets in the western region of Xinjiang on Sunday,...
Xinjiang’s Bleached Bones and Turquoise Tombs
Paul Mozur, a Taiwan-based correspondent, traveled through Xinjiang shortly after the July riots and filed a three-part report for Asia Sentinel. Read also Parts One and Two. From Part Three: Throughout our conversation Iparhan...
China Sentences 6 More to Death for Xinjiang Riot
Fourteen more individuals are being tried over the riots in July in Urumqi, after six were sentenced to death last week. From AFP: “The trials started at around 10:00 am today and they’re still not over. Fourteen...
China Sentences Six Men to Death over Ethnic Riots (Updated)
Just after handing down the death sentence to one man for the deadly factory brawl in Shaoguan, six men, all apparently Uighur, have been sentenced to death for instigating the riots in Urumqi that followed. From The Guardian:...
Classes Resume In Riot – Torn City Of Urumqi, China
Reuters reports on lingering safety concerns as schools open in Urumqi: A police warning about syringe stabbings led to hundreds of people reporting attacks with needles in early September, when schools opened for the fall...
China Sentences 3 to Prison over Syringe Attacks
From AP: A court in western China’s Xinjiang region sentenced three people to up to 15 years in prison Saturday for a series of mysterious syringe attacks that led to mass protests against the local government. The...
Needle Attacks and Rumours Spread in China’s Xinjiang
Mysterious syringe and needle attacks, both real and imagined, are continuing in Xinjiang and spreading outside Urumqi, Reuters reports: Nearly 600 people in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, home to the native Muslim Uighurs,...
China Official Regrets ‘Beating’
The Straits Times reports on the beating of three Hong Kong reporters in Xinjiang during recent protests: The three journalists were tackled and detained by paramilitary police while trying to escape tear gas fired to disperse...
Was Needle Panic in China a Fake Frenzy?
The Toronto Star looks at whether recent reports of organized syringe attacks in Xinjiang, which subsequently sparked protests, are truth or rumor: Demonstrations by frightened Chinese erupted in the Xinjiang capital last week...
China to Tear Down Kadeer Buildings in Restive Urumqi
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...
China Xinjiang Chief Survives Political Firestorm
Despite calls for him to resign following protests over random syringe attacks on residents, Xinjiang’s powerful Party secretary Wang Lequan remains in office, AP reports: Angry protesters poured into the streets of the...
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