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Update: Bomb Threat, Not Hijacking, Reported on Airplane Bound for Xinjiang

Posted on August 10, 2009 under Links , Xinjiang in the News

According to updates from the Associated Press, Xinhua is now reporting that there was a bomb threat–not a hijacking–on a Xinjiang-bound airplane.  There are few details at the moment, but apparently the flight in question [...]

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Chinese Consulate Officials Attempt to Block Australia’s Showing of Uighur Film

Posted on July 16, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Chinese consulate officials in Austrailia attempted to have a film withdrawn from Melbourne’s International Film Festival because it focuses on Rebiya Kadeer and her family. The festival’s director refused, and later commented to the media [...]

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Two Uighurs Shot Dead in Urumqi by Chinese Police

Posted on July 14, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Two Uighurs were shot dead by Chinese policemen today in Urumqi, according to the BBC. Another man was injured in the shooting. A spokesmen for the Chinese government claims that the shooting occurred as a [...]

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Visual Misrepresentations in the Turkish Media

Posted on July 13, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Turkish daily newspaper Zaman’s video news story, Urumçi’de çatışma,  about the Urumchi riots is stunning due to its visual misrepresentations. While the Turkish voice over focuses entirely on the situation in Urumchi, for an [...]

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Turkey, China, and Xinjiang

Posted on July 12, 2009 under Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

The Turkish government has offered Rebiya Kadeer the opportunity to visit Turkey, as reported by Today’s Zaman. Given that her two previous attempts to visit Turkey were denied, this unprompted invitation is significant. Moreover, the [...]

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Unrest Spreading to Kashgar

Posted on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The BBC is reporting that the July 5 events in Urumqi were carried over into today, July 6, in the city of Kashgar. The unrest spread to a second city on Monday, with police breaking [...]

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Remarks on the Urumqi Demonstrations

Posted on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

So far, the only official statements made by the U.S. on yesterday’s demonstrations in Urumqi are found in today’s State Department press briefing. The U.S. State Department spokesperson, Ian Kelly, discusses the issue with reporters, [...]

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Photographs of the Urumqi Riots: Part Two

Posted on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following photographs of the July 5 riots (and their aftermath) in Urumqi are from the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

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Photographs of the Urumqi Riots

Posted on July 07, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The following photographs are from a slideshow compiled by the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet.

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Uighurs in the Media

Posted on May 25, 2009 under Links , Society and Culture in Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

The Christian Science Monitor is clearly concerned with the rights of Uighurs. Their latest Uighur-related article interviews Abu Bakker Qassim in Tirana, Albania. The piece focuses on his perspective, as a now freed, former Guantánamo [...]

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Adil Hakimjan granted asylum in Sweden

Posted on May 02, 2009 under Xinjiang in the News

The Christian Science Monitor reports that Sweden granted asylum yesterday to Adil Hakimjan, a Uighur and former Guantánamo Bay detainee. For background on his case, you can read the Monitor’s detailed profile here.

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