Xinjiang

China news round-up: Tibetan activist freed, India border stand-off continues

3 May 2013

Politics
BBC News*
Conflicting reports on the Masanjia labour camp reflect an party dispute.
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China says no foreign link in Xinjiang violence

2 May 2013

Investigators found no foreign links to extremist violence in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region last week in which 25 people died, state media said on Thursday, diverging from past claims that...

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China news round-up: Xinjiang tightens security, Macau casino profit soars

2 May 2013

Politics and security
Reuters
China's top paper warns against "underground" extravagance.

7:13AM

China's new mental health law to make it harder for authorities to silence petitioners

1 May 2013

The director of Xinjiang's largest mental health institution has welcomed a new law, which went into effect on Wednesday, banning involuntary inpatient treatment for many people deemed mentally...

5:53PM

Xinjiang clash suspects met to study Koran

30 Apr 2013

The perpetrators of deadly violence last week in China’s Xinjiang region held secret Koran study sessions and possessed extremist religious literature, authorities said on Tuesday, accusations...

7:08PM

China arrests all 19 suspects in deadly Xinjiang clash

30 Apr 2013

Police have arrested all 19 suspects in connection with a deadly clash that began after authorities saw terrorists making explosives in China’s western region of Xinjiang, propaganda officials and...

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Xinjiang terror group smashed, say police

Public security authorities said the assailants were linked to a jihadist group and said the mastermind of last Tuesday's attack had been interrogated five years ago. They did not say if the...

10:28AM

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Xinjiang needs careful study

Ethnic tensions in the far western autonomous region of Xinjiang have again flared into violence. In the worst single incident since rioting between Muslim Uygurs and Han Chinese six years ago...

2:06AM

Fatal clash in Xinjiang shows cadres lack crisis awareness, analysts say

Nine officials, six police officers and six ethnic Uygurs died in the incident on Tuesday afternoon in a town in Bachu county, Kashgar prefecture, about 1,200 kilometres southwest of the...

5:22AM

Uygur ‘separatist’ Dilshat Rexit visits Taiwan

A controversial figure accused by China of inciting violence in the ethnically divided Xinjiang region, where clashes with police this week saw 21 people killed, arrived in Taiwan on Friday in a...

4:32PM

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Beijing urges US to condemn Xinjiang 'terror' attacks

China urged the US to condemn what Beijing has called terrorist attacks in Xinjiang instead of lecturing the country on human rights.

5:13AM

US presses China on Uygur rights after unrest

The United States on Wednesday urged China to safeguard the rights of its Uygur minority and carry out a transparent probe of the latest violence in which 21 people died.

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