Story Archive
2009-07-17
Vivid new accounts describe violence on both sides in a deadly ethnic clash in northwestern China.
2009-07-16
Chinese authorities learned a lot in 2008 about how to manage media during a crisis. In the Xinjiang riots, they put it to use.
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.
