10 years after deadly riots, China’s Xinjiang under lockdown

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 00:26:07 +0000

10 years after deadly riots, China's Xinjiang under lockdown

A decade after deadly riots tore through his hometown, Kamilane Abudushalamu still vividly recalls the violence that left him an exile.

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US has ‘deep concerns’ about UN official’s trip to China

Credit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 02:17:21 +0000

US has 'deep concerns' about UN official's trip to China

The U.S. government expressed deep concerns to the U.N. about a reported trip by the U.N. counterterrorism chief to the restive Xinjiang region in China’s far west.

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Thousands protest over mosque demolition plan in China

Thousands protest over mosque demolition plan in China

BEIJING — Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government’s efforts to rewrite how religions are practiced in the country.

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