China’s Uighurs Face Fasting Restrictions
Al-Jazeera has a report on the Ramadan crackdown ongoing in Xinjiang, including a ban on fasting for many segments of the population: Read more from Shanghaiist.
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The Reform Fantasy
James Mann has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about prospects for political reform considering the Chinese government’s behavior in the run-up to the Olympics: China’s actions over the past year — its...
Read MoreChina Executes Uighurs for Terrorist Links…But When?
China announces yet another move in its continued crackdown on alleged terrorist activity as the countdown to the Olympics progresses, but it sounds suspiciously like something that happened late last year. First, this...
Read MoreChina Takes Action Against Olympic ‘Terrorists’
Jonathan Watts reports in the Guardian: Chinese security forces claimed today to have foiled five “terrorist” plots against the Olympics amid an intensifying pre-games crackdown that has seen police kill five Uighur...
Read MoreChina Kills Five Muslims Training for ‘Holy War’: State Media
AFP is reporting on a raid in Urumqi in which five alleged terrorists planning a “holy war” were killed by police: The five were killed on Tuesday when police raided their hide-out in Urumqi, the capital of the...
Read MoreChina Loses Control of the Games
Here is an extensive report on Der Spiegel’s English website: Part 1: China Loses Control of the Games Part 2: ‘Journey of Harmony’ Part 3: The Boycott Taboo Part 4: And the Screen Went Dark Simon Elegant also...
Read MoreMuslim Activist Urges China Raid Probe – Alexa Olesen
From AP: An exiled Chinese Muslim activist living in the U.S. urged China on Wednesday to allow an independent probe of an anti-terror raid that officials say killed 18 militants. China said 18 terror suspects were killed and 17 arrested during the raid at an alleged training camp run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, […]
Read MoreSCMP: China arrests more than 800,000 people for endangering state security
From AsiaNews/SCMP: Tibetan monks, Xinjiang Muslims, but also non violent dissidents, farmers and members of underground religious communities are among those arrested. Youth crime climbs by 19.1 per cent. China’s courts were not idle in 2004. More than 800,000 people were arrested last year for endangering state security or for being involved in activities regarded […]
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