Story Archive
2009-06-19
A new round of detentions is reported in China's northwesternmost region.
2009-06-11
Four of 17 Uyghurs detained for years at Guantanamo Bay are flown to Bermuda.
2009-06-05
Two Uyghur women describe how police sent five women to jail and seven to forced labor for holding an illegal gathering.
2009-06-05
Court documents offer a rare glimpse of Chinese legal proceedings against 12 men sentenced for alleged separatism.
2009-05-22
They're well cared for, staff say, but ethnic Uyghur children are required to assume Chinese identities in a Xinjiang orphanage.
2009-05-15
Women belonging to an ethnic minority in northwestern China defend their land in a clash with officials who try to seize it for forced crop production.
2009-05-12
Workers at a Chinese shoe factory say they are underage, and that officials switched their identification papers to make them seem older.
2009-05-12
A prominent Uyghur economist takes outspoken aim at the Chinese government's handling of his native Xinjiang region.
2009-05-08
In a new twist on land development tensions in China, authorities in Xinjiang are reclaiming orchards farmed by ethnic Uyghurs.
2009-05-07
Uyghur exiles assail Pakistan's decision to send a group of ethnic Uyghurs back to China, while a militant group says it has no ties with the men.
2009-05-05
Will Germany’s exiled Uyghur community take in some of the Uyghur men held at Guantanamo Bay for the last seven years?
2009-04-15
A member of a Muslim ethnic group in China has been sentenced to jail for separatism after informing friends abroad of a local protest.
2009-04-02
Members of a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China are detained and fined for worshiping outside their own villages.
2009-04-02
Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have plans to redevelop traditional Uyghur homes in an historic Silk Road city.
2009-03-26
An outspoken economist from a Chinese minority group faces "unbelievable threats and pressure" to keep quiet.
