Story Archive
2009-07-13
After days of ethnic violence in Xinjiang's capital, Chinese authorities detain several journalists covering the unrest.
2009-07-10
A man contacted by RFA in Urumqi tells about his fears while the official Chinese media strive to portray a city under control and life back to normal.
2009-07-09
A prominent exile Uyghur leader says China prompted violent ethnic clashes in the country’s northwest.
2009-07-09
Chinese security forces crack down on cities with large Uyghur populations.
2009-07-08
An outspoken economist belonging to the Uyghur ethnic minority is presumed to be detained after police surrounded his home in Beijing.
2009-07-08
Deadly ethnic tensions in northwestern China may pose the biggest challenge yet to the country's vast censorship infrastructure.
2009-07-08
Chinese paramilitary police move into a tense and battle-scarred city after deadly clashes.
2009-07-07
Witnesses say thousands of armed Han Chinese are on the streets of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region's capital vowing revenge after a deadly clash.
2009-07-06
Chinese authorities say more than 700 people are detained following deadly clashes in Urumqi, as ethnic minority Uyghurs report strip-searches, roadblocks, and thwarted protests.
2009-07-05
China blames overseas Uyghurs for inciting rioting in the northwestern city, saying at least 156 people died in the violence.
2009-07-05
Uyghur youths now under official Chinese protection describe the deadly clash in Guangdong that sparked the July 5 protests and riots.
2009-06-29
A deadly clash in southern China exposes long-simmering tensions between majority Han Chinese and the mostly Muslim Uyghur ethnic group.
2009-06-24
Sweden charges an ethnic Uyghur, a Swedish national, with spying for China.
2009-06-19
A new round of detentions is reported in China's northwesternmost region.
2009-06-11
Four of 17 Uyghurs detained for years at Guantanamo Bay are flown to Bermuda.
2009-06-05
Two Uyghur women describe how police sent five women to jail and seven to forced labor for holding an illegal gathering.
2009-06-05
Court documents offer a rare glimpse of Chinese legal proceedings against 12 men sentenced for alleged separatism.
2009-05-22
They're well cared for, staff say, but ethnic Uyghur children are required to assume Chinese identities in a Xinjiang orphanage.
2009-05-15
Women belonging to an ethnic minority in northwestern China defend their land in a clash with officials who try to seize it for forced crop production.
2009-05-12
Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older.
2009-05-12
A prominent Uyghur economist takes outspoken aim at the Chinese government's handling of his native Xinjiang region.
2009-05-08
In a new twist on land development tensions in China, authorities in Xinjiang are reclaiming orchards farmed by ethnic Uyghurs.
2009-05-07
Uyghur exiles assail Pakistan's decision to send a group of ethnic Uyghurs back to China, while a militant group says it has no ties with the men.
2009-05-05
Will Germany’s exiled Uyghur community take in some of the Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years?
2009-04-15
A member of a Muslim ethnic group in China has been sentenced to jail for separatism after informing friends abroad of a local protest.
2009-04-02
Members of a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China are detained and fined for worshiping outside their own villages.
2009-04-02
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have plans to redevelop traditional Uyghur homes in an historic Silk Road city.
2009-03-26
An outspoken economist from a Chinese minority group faces "unbelievable threats and pressure" to keep quiet.
2009-03-06
While China accuses Uyghur "separatists" of fomenting unrest, a Uyghur economics professor says, Give them jobs.
2009-02-20
Ethnic Uyghurs in Kashgar complain about a new campaign against facial hair.
