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Ilham Tohti: Blacklists that Prohibit Leaving the Country Openly Trample the Law

Posted by Porfiriy on April 27, 2010 under Xinjiang in the News

Two weeks ago, outspoken Uyghur activist and intellectual Ilham Tohti was prevented from going to Turkey to attend an academic conference on Turkic culture. A quick background on the spat can be found here, at [...]

Comments (20) | Also tagged: freedom of movement, ilham tohti, Translations, Turkey, uighurbiz, 中文

Alright then, Xinjiang is that bad: A Place of Exile

Posted by Porfiriy on March 13, 2009 under History of Xinjiang , Xinjiang in the News

Alright then, so in the last post I talked about what I perceived to be a media blitz by Xinhua and its ilk to sort of compensate for Nur Bekri’s gloomy forecasting last Friday. Xinjiang, [...]

Comments (7) | Also tagged: charter 08, education, exile, he weifang, History of Xinjiang, hong liangji, lin zexu, mao zemin, Xinjiang, XPCC

Kashgar Attackers Sentenced to Death

Posted by Porfiriy on December 18, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

The two Uyghurs allegedly responsible for the August 4th terrorist attack in Kashgar, taxi driver Abdurahman Azat and vegetable seller Kurbanjan Hemit, have been sentenced to death, according to Reuters, AFP, the New York Times, [...]

Comments Off | Also tagged: 2008 kashgar attack, afp, death penalty, executions, justice, Kashgar, media, olympics, reuters, sentencing, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, terrorism, the new york times, uyghurs in the media, violence, Xinjiang

US Official on Guantanamo Uyghurs: “China is the only country that wants them back.”

Posted by Tewpiq on December 13, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Today, Portugal announced its willingness to take in some Guantanamo detainees as refugees and encouraged other members of the European Union to follow suit. The Uyghur detainees, as is increasingly common, are receiving especial media [...]

Comments (3) | Also tagged: BBC, china, government, guantanamo, interviews, media, military, portugal, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, uyghur

Uyghurs Speak Out on Hotel Restrictions

Posted by Porfiriy on October 28, 2008 under Society and Culture in Xinjiang

In my last post on the subject, I stated my belief that the way a people react to civil rights violations is just as important, if not more so, than the violations themselves. In terms [...]

Comments (11) | Also tagged: 2008 Olympics, beijing, civil rights, discrimination, hotels, message boards, police, PSB, restrictions, security, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, travel

Post-Olympic Miscellanea

Posted by Porfiriy on September 13, 2008 under Links

First, a quick apology. Both myself and the other writer for the site have been undergoing some major transitions, though again for the both of us these transitions are quickly getting wrapped up and both [...]

Comments (7) | Also tagged: 2008 Olympics, crime, economics, education, executions, gas, islam, justice, Links, nur bekri, olympics, pipelines, ramadan, restrictions, violence

The Mystery of the Time Traveling Executions: Uyghur Terrorists Get Not-So-Summary Sentences?

Posted by Porfiriy on July 14, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

Update: The mystery appears to be solved. My suspicions that the contradictions could be resolved by the possibility that RFA was simply wrong in its reporting turned out to be correct. The RFA article has [...]

Comments (6) | Also tagged: akto, analysis, china, court, courts, crime, execution, internet, ism, Kashgar, media, police, politics, religion, RFA, security, separatism, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, trial, trials, uyghur, uyghurs in the media, xinjiang in the media, Xinjiang in the News

Police Station Attacked in Sangong (三宫) Hui Village

Posted by Tewpiq on June 09, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

查看大图 (All GoogleDitu maps now automatically focus at the all-China level. Please scroll west.) According to sparse reports from the international press, a police station was assaulted last week in Sangong Hui Village by a [...]

Comments (6) | Also tagged: beijing, china, ghulja, government, incidents, olympics, police, politics, protest, Society and Culture in Xinjiang, Xinjiang, Xinjiang in the News

Society News Roundup: 11-17 March 2008

Posted by Tewpiq on March 17, 2008 under Xinjiang in the News

This is The New Dominion’s Society News Roundup for 11-17 March 2008. If you live in Ürümchi, you’ll have noticed that North Youhao Lu (友好北路) is being torn to pieces. The street, lined with two [...]

Comments Off | Also tagged: agriculture, culture, environment, food, government, holiday, news, wildlife, Xinjiang

Xinjiang Roundup: 11 November to 17 November 2007

Posted by Porfiriy on November 19, 2007 under Uncategorized

This week, Xinjiang saw more and more national park action, continuing victories for the Flying Tigers, a great outpouring of charity for Xinjiang’s first “Donation Month,” a new bus route to Mongolia, and more, under [...]

Comments (1) | Also tagged: basketball, bilingual education, CBA, charity, conservation, corruption, cultural preservation, cultural sites, earthquakes, ecology, education, foreign trade, foreigners in xinjiang, geology, hospitals, Ismail Tiliwaldi, journalism, justice, kazakhs, legends, medicine, mongolia, nasreddin appendi, national parks, newspapers, Przewalski's horse, regional government, safety, sports, transportation, Xinjiang Roundup

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