The World Uighur Network News 2005 

12/05 - KAZAKH ELECTION 'NOT DEMOCRATIC'  

Sunday's presidential election in Kazakhstan failed to meet international democratic standards, Europe's main poll-monitoring body the OSCE has said.

12/04 - UNDER THE Thumb: ChINA'S FAR WEST 

TO CHINESE cadres, the town of Yining is an advertisement for their country's six-year-old policy of boosting development in lagging western regions.

12/02 - CHINA TORTURE 'STILL WIDESPREAD'

A UN special envoy has said torture remains widespread in China but appears to be declining in urban areas.

11/30 - ISA HUSEN FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF "THE HUSTICE PARTY OF EAST TURKISTAN" SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON  

Accordimg to news the East Turkistan Information Centre received from home, the President of the „Justice Party of East Turkistan“, Isa Hüsen was arrested by Chinese police in July 2005.

11/22 - CHINE " MORE AWARE" Of TORTURE USE 

The UN special envoy on torture has said that his invitation to visit China indicates growing awareness in Beijing that the practice is still widely used.

11/16 - US URGES CHINESE POLITICA REFORM

US President George W Bush has urged China to allow more political freedoms, as he began an eight-day Asian tour.

11/14 - UYGHURS INVITED ONTO STGE WITH HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

(Washington, D.C.) His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivered a public talk on Sunday November 13 at the MCI Center in Washington, DC. Two representatives of the Uyghur community were profoundly honored to participate in a procession of Himalayan peoples,

11/14 - DETAINEES DESERVE COURT TRIALS

As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me. Filing lawsuits on behalf of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Terrorists! Kyl must have said the word 30 times.

11/12 - CHINA BATTLES TO CONVINCE TERROR SCEPTICS

IN A freezing late-autumn drizzle a week ago, a local man showed visitors around the mosques of this small city that is hard up against the spectacular Tienshan range, literally the Mountains of Heaven, that forms China's border with Central Asia.

11/12 - MAJOR EVEMTS OF THE EAST TURKISTAN REPUBLIC 

In the fall of 1944, Uighur, Kazakh and other minorities in the three districts Ili, Quqek, and Altai in the Xinjiang province, who could no longer bear the national suppression of the counterrevolutionary Guo Ming Dang forces,

11/11 - CHINESE COURT JAILS UYGHUR EDITOR FOR PUBLISHING VEILED DISSENT [RFA]    

WASHINGTON—Chinese authorities have jailed the chief editor of the Kashgar Literature Journal for publishing a fable they regard as a veiled indictment of China’s heavy-handed rule in the northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region,

11/10 - OPEN LETTER TO H.E. GERHARD SCHROEDER  

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) presents its compliments tor your excellency and has the honour to refer to the following urgent matter.

11/08 - CHINA ASKS PAK TO PROBE TERRORIST THREAT IN HONG KONG, MIDLAND  

Islamabad, Nov. 8 (PTI): China has asked Pakistan to investigate and share information on a recent threat of terrorist attacks on tourist spots in Chinese-administered Hong Kong and Midland China.

11/08 - HONG KONG, MIDLAND CHINA THREATENED WITH TERRORIST ATTACKS: CHINA SEEKS PAKISTAN’S HELP IN INVESTIGATION

KARACHI: The Chinese government has requested the government of Pakistan to investigate and share information on a recent threat of terrorist attacks on tourist spots in Chinese-administrated

11/07 - CHINA ORDERS PRIVATE OIL DRILLERS TO HALT DESERT OPERATIONS PAGE {1} 

Into the red earth of the Gobi Desert, Ma Changchun sank all the money he had scraped together in his 45 years. He added the life savings of nearly 300 friends, relatives and neighbors from his village, most of them poor farmers who knew little about business.

11/05 - BAIRAM IN EAST TURKISTAN   

Chinese government's cruelty is increasing on Uighur Muslims, nowadays coming up to Bairam time ! .

11/03 - SUPER SALT MINE DISCOVERED IN XINJIANG   

An outsize salt mine with a proved reserve of 14.5 billion tons has been discovered in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local government sources said on Thursday.

11/02 - WORLD'S SMALLEST TEMPLE DISCOVERED IN CHINA   

BEIJING: Chinese archaeologists have claimed to have discovered the world's smallest ancient temple with Mahayana scriptures in the southern rim of the Taklimakan Desert in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

11/01 - CHINESE MUSLIMS TOO SCARED TO TALK    

Uighur Muslims say they 'don't dare talk'
The same muttered phrase greets any curious visitor who strays into the mosques and bazaars dotting towns in Xinjiang province in China's remote northwest.

10/21 - ETIC HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2004 - 2005   

1 - POLICY OF DOUBLE STANDARDS IN CHINA IN THE LAW
2 - CONTINUED VIOLATION OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
3- COMPULSARY CHANGE OF UYGHUR EDUCATION TO BE IN CHINESE LANGUAGE
4 - VIOLATION OF THE UYGHUR PEOPLES RIGHTS OF FREE TOUGHT, FREE EXPRESSION OF THOUGHT AND FREE ACCESS TO INFORMATION

10/18 - CHINA ARRESTS FOREIGN MILITANTS IN RESTIVE WEST   

URUMQI, China - China has arrested 19 foreigners on terrorism charges in its restive northwestern region of Xinjiang and told the children of a freed dissident they cannot go abroad, a regional leader said on Tuesday.

10/17 - THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT'S CRUEL PAW HAS REACHED UP TO PAKISTAN  

Haci Muhammed KASIM, his wife Hasiyethan KASIM, Hasiyethan's brother Haci Abdulghani and his wife Amine who live in Niye city on Hotan region have been forced to back from Pakistan by Chinese Government's pressure.

10/11 - THE RED COMMUNIST TERROR HAVE BEEN INCREASED MORE THAN BEFORE, IN HOLY RAMADAN IN EAST TURKISTAN

According to news from Abdullah Pamir who is correspondent of ETIC, (EAST TURKISTAN INFORMATION CENTER) The Communist Chinese government, Chinese army, Police Department, Spy(s) and Accomplices have increased the pressure on Uyghur Muslims, since at the beginning of Holy Ramadan in this year!

10/11 - CHINA'S XINJIANG-LANZHOU OIL PIPELINE FINISHED  

LANZHOU, Oct 11 Asia Pulse - The Xinjiang-Lanzhou oil pipeline has in the main been completed, according to an announcement by the China Petroleum and Natural Gas Pipeline Bureau that undertook the project.

10/10 - Ramadan In East Turkistan  

My name is Aziz Tursuncan. I go to primary school in Besbalik town where is near capital city (Urumci) of East TURKISTAN.

10/05 - People’s Republic of China: Re-instatement of Supreme Court review of death sentences – a step towards abolition?  

In the run-up to the World Day against the Death Penalty on 10 October 2005, Amnesty International urges China to accelerate reforms aimed at reducing the use of the death penalty with a view to abolishing the death penalty as soon as possible..

09/30 - 23 UYGURS KILLED BY PAKISTANI POLICE  

Habibullah and Abdusettar from Ghulja and Nuriddin from Shahyar region of Aksu, survivors of the bloody repression on February 5, 1997 in Ghulja , had fled to Almaty in Kazakhstan. After finding a resort in Almaty, they married to resident Uygur women and were able to get temporary residence permission.

09/30 - Uighurs say China making region a "time bomb"

BEIJING, (AFP) - A worldwide group of exiled Uighur Muslims criticised China over what it called oppression and exploitation in the Xinjiang region, and warned the region was being turned into a "time bomb."

09/30 - Chinese Activists Call for Day of Mourning 

BEIJING - Exiled activists seeking more freedom for China's mostly-Muslim northwest warned Friday that Beijing's hard-line control could lead to increased separatist violence, as the Communist Party prepared to mark 50 years of rule over the area.

09/29 - The 50th Anniversary of the So-Called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 

China is preparing for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, which the Uyghur people call East Turkestan, on October 1, 2005. But the Uyghur people living at home and abroad commemorate this date as a date of national mourning.

09/09 - Chinese armed polices are terrifying Uyghurs in East Turkistan

Starting from early August, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Shinjang Uygur Autonomous District, the Chinese government use the armed police in many cities to threaten the people of Uygur nationality.

09/08 - China: Harassment and detention of Rebiya Kadeer’s family and associates 

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about reports of repeated harassment and detention of Rebiya Kadeer’s family and associates in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), northwest China, since her release from prison on 17 March 2005.

08/28 - 7 people arrested in East Turkistan for "Keeping Religious Books" 

The East Turkistan Information Center reports today that the Chinese authorities have arrested 7 young Uighur Muslims for "Keeping Religious Books" . The incident happened on 20th of July, 2005, at a Bus Station in the Korla District in South Xinjiang.

08/26 - China accuses high-profile dissident of plot  

BEIJING - China on Thursday accused a high-profile dissident exiled to the United States of plotting to sabotage upcoming celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the setting up the northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang

08/25 - China steps up pre-anniversary crackdown on Xinjiang separatists 

BEIJING, Aug 25 (AFP) - China Thursday said it has stepped up a crackdown on pro-independence and separatist activities in its Muslim-majority Xinjiang region ahead of the 50th anniversary of its takeover of the restive area.

08/24 - Police arrest 10 pro-independence Uighurs in western China 

BEIJING, Aug 24 (AFP) - Police in China's Muslim-majority Xinjiang region have arrested 10 Uighur activists and accused them of plotting independence and separatism, a rights body and police said Wednesday.

08/19 - China bans Islamic group in Xinjiang, arrests 179

Aug 19: China has banned a branch of Islam in its Muslim-dominated Xinjiang region and arrested 179 followers, saying it "poisons" people's minds, a rights group and state media said Friday.

08/14 - China detains teacher, 37 students for studying Quran    

AP, BEIJING:Aug 14: Authorities in Muslim-majority northwest China detained a religious teacher and her 37 students for studying the Quran at her home, an activist group said Sunday.

08/03 - Guantanamo Uyghur's Plight Affects Family

For all this time, A'del Abdu Al-Hakim's sister had no idea her brother was alive.

Since 2001 neither she, nor his family in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China, has known whether he was still living.

07/26 - China Continues To Persecute Religious Groups, State's Birkle Saysa

Washington - The repression of citizens seeking to exercise fundamental freedoms recognized by the international community continues to be a systemic problem in China, says Gretchen Birkle, acting principal deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

07/26 - Put cleared detainees in a hotel, lawyer says

WASHINGTON -- In small bunkhouses surrounded by green fences at Guantanamo Bay, 16 Chinese and Uzbek Muslim men are approaching their fourth anniversary as prisoners of America. They live like convicted criminals: confined to small spaces far from their families and watched by guards.

07/20 - Chen's pitch to Congress may fuel row with China

The Chinese defector Chen Yonglin flew out of Australia yesterday to give evidence to a US congressional human rights committee, in a move that threatens to exacerbate tensions between Australia and China.

07/11 - Outrage in Turkey

Those who were looking for the News of the Day can find it here.

Well, well, well, less than three days after I highlight the plight of the people of occupied East Turkestan, my friend Anwar Yusuf Turani, Prime Minister of the Government-in-exile, is subjected to an outrage in Istanbul, Turkey. 

07/08 - On London II: The anti-terrorist Muslims of East Turkestan

One aspect of the political aftermath of the London terrorist attack has been painfully predictable: the discussion of the “Muslim community.” As has become typical when an attack like this occurs,

07/01 - THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT CALLS ME A TERRORIST

Ahmet Igamberdi is a dissident writer and prominent representative of the Uyghur people in Australia. He spent 10 years in a Chinese prison in the 1970s under suspicion of being part of an underground Uyghur resistance.

06/29 - China jails Muslim author

A Chinese Muslim author has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after authorities deemed one of his stories subversive, a US-based broadcaster reported Wednesday.
Nurmuhemmet Yasin, 

06/27 - Wild Pigeon - by Nurmuhemmet Yasin.Part 1.

Translator's note: This story was first published in issue No. 5 of the 2004 Kashgar Literature Magazine by a young freelance writer, Nurmuhemmet Yasin, to widespread acclaim among the Uyghur people. The author has since been detained by the Chinese authorities because of its strong portrayal of a people deeply unhappy with life under Beijing's rule. RFA broadcast a dramatized version of the story in Uyghur earlier this year.

06/27 - Wild Pigeon: A Uyghur Fable

06/27 - Wild Pigeon—by Nurmuhemmet Yasin. Part 2.

06/10 - Beijing’s growing security dilemma in Xinjiang

The volatile mix of ethnic and religious repression can only lead to a resumption of insurgency and instability in Xinjiang with consequences for the Chinese economy as well as the Uighur’s themselves.

06/07 - Second China defector backs Australia spy claims

Hao Fengjun told Australian Broadcasting Corp. television late on Tuesday that he had worked for China's security service, known as 610, in the northern port city of Tianjin.

06/07 - China labels spy claims slanderous. 

China says claims made by diplomat Chen Yonglin, who is seeking to defect in Australia, are slanderous and insists he will be treated fairly if returned to Beijing.

06/03 - Chinese government launches special ‘Strike Hard [campaign]’ against the Uighurs. 

[Reported by Kanzhongguo 30 May 2005] The East Turkestan Information Centre, which is engaged in Xinjiang pro-independence activities, has said that in order to safeguard the 50th anniversary of the founding of the XUAR,

06/03 - Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) Members' Briefing. 

On the eve of the 16th anniversary of the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing, Amnesty International calls for justice for those who lost their lives on 3-4 June, 1989.  The organisation also calls for the release of those imprisoned in 1989 or jailed since for seeking a reassessment of events at Tiananmen.

06/01 - China Continues to Violate Freedom of Spiritual and Religious Belief. 

According to an exclusive news report from the East Turkistan Information Center, the National Security Brigade in Xayar County,

04/27 - Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) Members' Briefing. 

The Human Rights Situation of Uighurs in the People's Republic of China (PRC)
Prepared by senior researcher Mickey Spiegel, and delivered by Asia division advocacy director Veena Siddharth.

04/22 - Atmosphere of fear pervades China's largely Muslim Xinjiang region. 

URUMQI, China (AFP) - An atmosphere of fear pervades China's largely Muslim Xinjiang region, where strangers shy away of open discussion and religious and civil rights are curbed.

04/21 - WORLD UYGHUR CONGRESS CONDEMNS OUTRAGES ACTS OF THE SWISS. 

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) strongly condemn the outrageous acts of Swiss Police Officers in respect to Mr. Dolkun Isa, the General Secretary of the WUC.

04/13 - Japan has begun allocating gas exploration rights in an area of the East China Sea also claimed by China. 

The move is likely to anger Beijing, at a time when tensions between the two nations are already rising.

04/12 - China Rejects Rights Groups' Charge of Muslim Repression

China is rejecting findings by two international human-rights groups that it is practicing widespread religious repression against its main Muslim minority group. The groups say Beijing is using the war on terrorism as an excuse to suppress ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang province

04/12 - China: Religious Repression of Uighur Muslims

China has been accused by two US-based human rights groups of conducting a "crushing campaign of religious repression" against Muslim Uighurs.

04/11 - China Said to Step Up Religious Persecution of Minority in Its West

BEIJING, April 11 - China has stepped up a campaign of religious persecution against its minority Uighur population in the western region of Xinjiang even though the government has already eliminated any organized resistance to Beijing's rule there, two leading human rights groups said in a joint report to be released Tuesday..

04/11 - China: Religious Repression of Uighur Muslims

(New York, April 12, 2005) -- The Chinese government is directing a crushing campaign of religious repression against China's Muslim Uighurs in the name of anti-separatism and counter-terrorism, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China said in a new report today.

04/04 - China looks to strengthen S Asia ties.

China will seek to bolster its influence in South Asia during a four-nation tour by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, amid worries in Beijing about a changing geopolitical climate as the United States looks to boost New Delhi as a major power.

03/31 - Chinese foreign minister meets isolated Nepal king. 

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing held talks with Nepal's King Gyanendra on Thursday to boost ties with the Himalayan kingdom isolated since the monarch seized full power on Feb. 1.

03/30 - Activists in Mongolia are calling for fresh elections and have demanded an end to official corruption. 
03/21 - Chechen New President Thanks Poland for Condemning Mashkadov's Assassination 
03/17 - China: Rebiya Kadeer release welcome, but tactically timed 
03/17 - China frees top Uighur prisoner 
03/11 - China blacks out BBC World's "China Week" coverage 

02/28 - China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau)y 
02/17 - CKYRGYZSTAN: Interview with the chair of national Uyghur society
02/09 - China: Horrific New Year 
02/04 - China: Remembering the victims of police brutality in Gulja, Xinjiang on 5-6 February 1997 
02/03 - China Urged to End Restrictions on Muslims 
01/28 - Human Rights Watch World Report 2005:China 
01/27 - US to push China to release of prominent Uighur Rebiya Kadeer 
01/20 - Jack Straw China visit this week: Briefing on human rights concerns
01/19 - UHRP Condemns Arrest of Uyghur Writer/Poet Nurmemet Yasin by the Chinese Government 
01/13 - Reform in China smothered by corruption: Human Rights Watch 
01/13 - Rights groups call on Canadian PM to push China on rights 
01/06 - The Story 
01/05 - Uighurs detainees face tough choice