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Radio Free Asia
April 20, 2018
Authorities in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, are setting up “burial management centers” as part of what the Uyghur exile ... 1 Village, in Guma (Pishan) county's Piyalma township, told RFA that a burial management center “opened in July 2017” within the county.
The Epoch Times
April 20, 2018
BEIJING—A senior U.S. State Department diplomat said punitive measures could be taken to condemn the Chinese regime's further crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang. Laura Stone, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs,Ãâà...
Kansas City Star
April 19, 2018
A senior U.S. official says the United States would pursue sanctions on Chinese officials involved in a sweeping security crackdown in the western region of Xinjiang if they were deemed appropriate for designation under a law targeting human rights offenders. Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of StateÃâà...
Independent Newspapers Limited
April 19, 2018
Tens of thousands of people have been detained in China's troubled far-western region of Xinjiang, a senior US State Department diplomat said on ... Radio Free Asia said in January more than 120,000 people were being held in re-education facilities in the southern Xinjiang city of Kashgar alone.
Sixth Tone
April 19, 2018
Russians in Xinjiang, however, are the descendants of four waves of migrants. The first were merchants who hawked their wares in Xinjiang's market towns at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Following the October Revolution of 1917, some of these traders rejected Moscow'sÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
April 12, 2018
The phone was then passed to a security officer at the village government building, who told RFA that the man's name was Abdughappar Abdujappar, and that he had died in December last year at the Bayanday Township People's Hospital, after being held in “the School of Finance Re-education Camp …
The News International (blog)
April 2, 2018
Abudusadike Simayi who is also from Yutian district, Xinjiang illegally crossed China border in 2012. Baitula Aobulikasimu who belongs to Hetian City of Xinjiang illegally left the country in 2014 and was also involved in terrorism. Jumaniyazi Maitikuerban who is from Luopu, Xinjiang left the country in 2013Ãâà...
Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom
March 26, 2018
Washington University graduate student Elissa Bullion uncovers an ancient skull from a burial plot at the Medieval city of Tashbulak in Uzbekistan. (Photo: Tom Malkowicz/ Washington University). For this study, human bones exhumed at archaeological digs in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan were transportedÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 22, 2018
But official sources in Bayanday township, Ili Kazakh (in Chinese, Yili Hasake) Autonomous prefecture's Ghulja (Yining) county, recently told RFA's Uyghur Service that some of the detainees from their villages had been pre-emptively targeted for re-education simply because they were younger than 40Ãâà...
Radio Free Asia
March 19, 2018
Xinjiang Authorities Up Detentions in Uyghur Majority Areas of Ghulja City ... Officials from at least two of the seven villages in Ghulja's Bayanday township, where more than 50 percent of the 33,130 residents are Uyghurs, confirmed to RFA that they had been instructed by higher-level authorities to ramp upÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 15, 2018
Members of the Uygur Muslim ethnic group held demonstrations in cities around the world to protest against a sweeping Chinese surveillance and ... China has rolled out one of the world's most aggressive policing programmes in the Uygurs' homeland of Xinjiang, a vast region in the country's northwest.
Radio Free Asia
March 14, 2018
Police officers on duty in the vicinity of a center believed to be used for re-education in Xinjiang's Korla city, Nov. ... answered a call to the Bayawat township police station said he wasn't aware of the case and handed the phone to an officer, who hung up when asked which village Naman's family lives in.
The Diplomat
March 9, 2018
This expanded system of surveillance has also been backed not only with force, displayed most overtly through such measures as mass “anti-terrorism” rallies of thousands of security personnel in Xinjiang's major cities, but also, most disturbingly, by mass social coercion not seen since the height of theÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
December 31, 1999
2 Village in Bayanday township, in Ili Kazakh's Ghulja (Yining) county, recently told RFA's Uyghur Service that “nearly 30” of the township's Uyghur ... however, after we uncovered three to four people [in our village], the rest came forward” from other villages in the township to admit their wrongdoing andÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
URUMQI, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The fiber optic network will reach more poverty-stricken villages in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region this year, according to the regional communications administration. Xinjiang received central government funding of 1.07 billion yuan (170 million U.S.Ãâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
Xinjiang opened its 20th airport, the Ruoqiang Loulan Airport, on Thursday. Currently, only one air route operates out of the new airport. The new route, also launched Thursday, links Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, Korla City and Ruoqiang County and is operated by China Southern Airlines. (Xinhua/JiangÃâà...
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