Half the Xinjiang Sky
On July 7, 2009, two days after violence rocked Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, in a rare and daring show of public protest, Uyghur women stepped forward to demand the return of their men who were arrested in large numbers by Chinese police.
Women of all ages, wearing Islamic scarf as well as high heels and sexy tee-shirts, poured in the streets, raising their fists and screaming in the face of a momentarily frightened police.
As the authorities launched a sweeping security crackdown, the women risked arrest by speaking out. “Of course the first thing they want is justice. They want all the Uyghur men free. But I think they fight for freedom, for dignity,” said one Uyghur woman interviewed on video by Radio Free Asia allowing a rare look into the psyche of women of the Muslim faith living in Central Asia.
Uyghur Women Step Forward
- Women Held Over Party
- Uyghur Women Block Land Grab
- New Son for Uyghur Woman
- Uyghur Woman Released, Without Forced Abortion
- “Won’t Anyone Listen to Justice?”
- Uyghur Woman Found, Facing Abortion
- Uyghur Woman Faces Forced Abortion
- One Child in China
- Uyghur Radio Worker Sacked, Detained
- Uyghurs Protest in China's Remote Xinjiang Region
- Uyghur Girls Forced Into Labor Far From Home By Local Chinese Officials
Rebiya Kadeer: Exile Leader
- Uyghur Leader’s Family Evicted
- Kadeer Rejects Letters
- Exiled Uyghur Dissident Says Family Detained in Retaliation
- Rebiya Kadeer Aims To Help Uyghur People from Exile
- Rebiya Kadeer: A Fight for Human Rights
- I Want to Make my Fights International: Rebiya Kadeer
- Your Children Will Be Finished, Chinese Guards Warned Uyghur Activist Rebiya Kadeer
- China Frees Rebiya Kadeer
- Uyghur Woman Held in China Wins Rafto Human Rights Prize