Story Archive
2010-06-14
Urumqi residents say 'volunteers' are patrolling the city ahead of a grim anniversary.
2010-06-11
Chinese authorities are said to be detaining an ethnic Uyghur whose Kazakh visa had lapsed.
2010-06-08
Authorities in northwest China raid a Muslim study group as part of a religious crackdown.
2010-05-29
Residents report a new clash between Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uyghurs in Tianjin.
2010-05-26
Chinese authorities are still detaining a number of Uyghurs without charge after the Urumqi unrest.
2010-05-26
Authorities in northwestern China announce new religious restrictions.
2010-05-20
Did Pakistani officials pressure a Uyghur-language school into closing its doors?
2010-05-19
Chinese authorities restore Internet access to Xinjiang, but censorship is likely to continue.
2010-05-10
A new Party boss vows to “strike hard” against separatism, as an ethnic Uyghur is unaccounted for in custody.
2010-04-28
A leading economist says he is saddened that China bars scholars from traveling.
2010-04-24
Wang Lequan is replaced by the Hunan provincial chief in an unexplained decision by the Central Committee in Beijing.
2010-04-23
Troubling allegations about how Chinese authorities handled his case.
2010-04-22
A leading Chinese scholar and activist takes up the cause of Internet freedom in Xinjiang.
2010-04-19
Ilham Tohti, a leading economist, is told to stay home.
2010-04-13
Chinese officials shut down transportation services between northwestern China and Kyrgyzstan.
2010-04-08
In China’s northwest, alleged contacts with outside groups bring a stiff jail term.
2010-04-06
Brothers blame raids and arrests on pressure from China.
2010-03-25
Friends call for China to free a journalist widely seen as pro-Beijing.
2010-03-23
After 8-1/2 years in custody at Guantanamo Bay, two men are freed.
2010-03-23
Official communication curbs remain in northwestern China.
2010-03-09
Political refugee—a former mayor—collected information for China.
2010-03-04
Authorities fear a new surge in ethnic violence.
2010-03-01
A Japanese Uyghur expert is turned away at the airport.
2010-02-18
Gen. Mehmet Riza Bekin Pasha was renowned as an advocate for the Uyghur people.
2010-02-03
Two Uyghur Guantanamo detainees could be sent to Switzerland within one month.
2010-02-02
Will Switzerland resettle two Uyghur men held for years at Guantanamo Bay?
2010-01-26
Chinese courts have now sentenced at least 26 people to death following deadly riots in Xinjiang.
2010-01-19
The murder of a waiter from the troubled region of Xinjiang is part of a growing trend of attacks, exiles say.
2009-12-25
China's national media haven't reported on new trials and death sentences related to deadly riots in Xinjiang.
2009-12-23
A legal visitor in Cambodia was apparently swept up in a mass deportation to China.
