East Asia
China blames Kunming attack on Uighur ‘terrorists’
Authorities in Kunming, Yunnan province, say a deadly mass knife attack at the city's main rail station was "orchestrated by Xinjiang separatist forces."
Tag: China
Central Asia
China’s Uighur unrest: ‘terrorism’ or provocation?
Eleven ethnic Uighurs were killed in what China's state news agency Xinhua called a "terrorist attack" in Xinjiang—and what Uighur exiles hailed as an act of "resistance."
Central Asia
Mongol herders sentenced for resisting land-grab
A court in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region handed down prison terms to six herders who protested the seizure of local grazing land by a forestry company.
Central Asia
Uighur leader Ilham Tohti accused of ‘separatism’
Detained Uighur scholar and activist Ilham Tohti was accused by Chinese authorities of "separatism," and formal charges against him are expected imminently.
East Asia
China sentences activist Xu Zhiyong to four years
A Beijing court sentenced legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong to four years in prison on the charge of "gathering a crowd to disturb public order."
Central Asia
Arson attacks on Tibetan monasteries?
Three mysterious blazes at historic Tibetan monasteries across western China in as many months have sparked speculation about a campaign of arson attacks.
Watching the Shadows
Last Uighur prisoners released from Guantánamo
The US Department of Defense announced that the last three Uighur Muslim detainees were transferred to Slovakia from the Guantánamo Bay military prison.
East Asia
East China Sea gets scary —again
A near confrontation between Chinese and US aircraft over disputed East China Sea gasfields comes amid major joint US-Japanese naval maneuvers off Okinawa.
Central Asia
Tibetan monk imprisoned for ‘splittism’: report
A Tibetan monk in China’s Sichuan province was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after he led a public prayer session for self-immolation martyrs.
Central Asia
Han-Uighur solidarity amid Xinjiang violence
As another deadly clash is reported from Xinjiang, Shanghai journalist Yang Haipeng has started donning a Uighur skullcap at security checkpoints as a gesture of solidarity.
Central Asia
Uighurs recall independent East Turkestan
In a Capitol Hill ceremony, Uighur exile leaders commemorated the founding of an independent East Turkestan Republic on Nov. 12 in both 1933 and 1944.
East Asia
China: terror blasts in Shanxi; Uighurs feel pressure
Blasts at the Shanxi Communist Party headquarters left one dead—days after dissident Uighur leader Ilham Tohti said his family was threatened by security agents.