The World Uighur Network News 2006 

12/25 - 13 UYGHUR BUSINESSMEN CONVICTED OVER URUMCHI CITY TIANSHAN REGIONAL COURT  

From December two to December five Urumchi city Tianshan regional court opened trial for 13 uyghur butchers lead by Omer Rozi, Semet Ababekri, Obulkasim Abdurup , Ekber Nurmemet. They all detained and pledged guilty for trying to organize “black community”, but court didn’t present any evidence. Court didn’t give any opportunity for defendants to present their evidence.

11/29 - UYGUR MUSLIMS - SWAMPED BY HAN INFLUX  

KASHGAR, Xinjiang Province, Nov 29 (IPS) - The evening light dances on the glazed pink tiles of the shapely buildings around the ancient Idkah mosque and in the enfolding dusk the site evokes tales from the 'One thousand and one nights'. But the illusion is fleeting -- none of the buildings in this spot, except for the revered mosque, is more than a few years old.

11/27 - CHINA: THIRD SON OF UIGHUR ACTIVIST RABIYA KADEER IN DETENTION  

Amnesty International called on the Chinese authorities to stop targeting the family of Uighur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer, as two of her sons were sentenced today on charges of tax evasion. A third son who was so badly beaten by police that he had to be hospitalised, has been moved to a detention centre.

11/20 - XINJIANG HEPATITIS STUDENTS BATTLE SCHOOL BAN  

HONG KONG—A group of high-school students from the northwestern, mainly Muslim Uyghur region of Xinjiang is still fighting their exclusion from school because they are infected with the Hepatitis B virus.

11/19 - MUSLIM VOICES RISING IN CHINA 

HETIAN, China - On a recent Friday, the holy day of Islam, crowds swelled inside the antique Jame mosque, the largest in this ancient town in Xinjiang Province in the far west of China, home to the nation's small but restive Muslim minority.

11/07 - IN CHINA, A PIPELINE SPURS ETHNIC CONFLICT

Muslim minority calls oil riches a curse

LUNNAN, China: The flame from a looming oil tower illuminates the endless desert like a beacon of hope.

10/23 - ZHANG QINGLI ELECTED TIBET PARTY CHIEF  

Zhang Qingli was elected secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region on Monday.
Zhang, 55, was elected to the post at the first plenary session of the 7th CPC Tibet Regional Committee.

09/27 - MINORITY OR NATIONAL PEOPLE ?  

In the last years, China started to use in all official papers the term “minority” for the Uyghur people living in its north west province Xinjiang. This caused anger among the Uyghurs who consider themselves as a national people.

09/18 - REAL PURPOSE OF CHINA IN THE “GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR”

China is a potential rival and a disturbing challenge for US. This is progressively manifested by China's annual double-digit military budget increase. “By some estimates, China is spending the equivalent of $65-billion (U.S) annually on its military budget in the world, surpassed only by that of the United States” (Global and mail.

09/15 - UYGHUR PILGRIMS DENIED SAUDI VISAS IN PAKISTAN   

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has learned that several thousand Uyghurs in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, have been refused visas to travel to Saudi Arabia to participate in a religious pilgrimage,

09/14 - HUSEIN DZHELIL(know as Huseyin or Huseyincan Celil) (m), AGED 37, CANADIAN CITIZEN 

According to unconfirmed reports, Husein Dzhelil has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment and is currently being held in Baijiahu prison in Urumqi,

09/12 - UYGHUR EXILE GROUP CALLS ON MERKEL TO LOBBY WEN FOR THEIR RIGHTS 

Munich- The World Uyghur Congress called Tuesday on German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of this week's visit by Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao to Germany to lobby for the rights of the Muslim minority in China.

09/11 - CHINA MUSLIM ACTIVIST: FROM UNKNOWN TO NOBEL NOMINEE 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China counted on Rebiya Kadeer, a Muslim businesswoman-turned-activist, fading into political irrelevance like most exiled Chinese dissidents when she left for the United States last year. But it may have miscalculated.

08/14 - CHINA's "UYGHUR PROBLEM" AND THE SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANIZATION 

In early 2006, the U.S. released to Albania five Chinese citizens, all of them Uyghur Muslim detainees, formerly held in the Guantánamo detention center in Cuba, whom they had determined to be “non-combatants” among at least 22 other Uyghurs from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. 

08/14 - 5 MEN LEAVE GUANTANAMO FOR A BLEAK, UNCERTAIN FUTURE

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 — Early on May 5, five Asian men who had been detained at the prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for years as dangerous terrorists, boarded a military transport plane at the United States naval base there.

08/12 - RECENT NEWS RELEASES 

It is time for the Canadian government to take action in a different way. Husein Celil has been in Chinese custody since the end of June when he was extradited from Uzbekistan.

08/05 - CANADIAN MAY FACE DEATH IN CHINA, FAMILY LEARNS 

The department of Foreign Affairs was scrambling for information Friday after word that a Canadian man being held in China could be executed as early as next week, The Globe and Mail has learned.

08/01 - REMEMBERING AND HONOURING ALIM YUSUF 

Alim Yunus, founder and one of the leaders of the “East Turkistan Allah Party” was executed by the Chinese government in the year 2000 July 19. Today exactly six years have past since this unbearable loss.

07/27 - ETIC  PRESS INFORMATION 

The East Turkistan Information Center strongly condemns China’s arrest of the “Spiritual Mother” of the Uyghurs and leader of Uyghur diasphora, human rights activist Rabiye Kaadeer’s three adult children.

06/28 - AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ACTION: KAZAKSTAN/CHINA 

Yusuf Kadir Tohti and Abdukadir Sidik, who are originally from China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), are being held in incommunicado detention in China after being forcibly returned from Kazakstan on 10 May.

06/24 - UZBEKISTAN DEPORTS A CANADIAN UYGHUR TO A DEEPLY UNCERTAIN FATE IN CHINA 

The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been informed by officials in Uzbekistan that Huseyin Celil, a Uyghur and naturalized Canadian citizen who fled China several years ago, has been sent back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by the Uzbek authorities.

06/23 - EXILED UYGHUR DISSIDENT SAYS FAMILY DETAINED IN RETALIATION 

WASHINGTON—U.S.-based Uyghur activist Rebiya Kadeer has said the arrest of her three adult sons by authorities in China amounts to retaliation by officials angered by her criticism of Chinese rule in the regions.

06/19 - NO WORD FOR WIFE ON JAILED UYGHUR WRITER'S FATE 

HONG KONG—The wife of a minority Muslim Uyghur writer, jailed by a Chinese court in 1999 for "stealing state secrets," says authorities have never officially told her of her husband's fate or whereabouts in more than seven years.

06/06 - TALE OF 5 MUSLIMS: OUT OF GUANTANAMO AND INTO LIMBO 

Cleared by U.S. of Terror Ties, They Won't Return Home due to Fear of Punishment. China Demands Repatriation

 

 

06/01 - REBIYA KADEER’S ADULT CHILDREN SEVERELY BEATEN IN FRONT OF HER GRANDCHILDREN 

The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has learned that two adult children of Rebiya Kadeer were severely beaten by police officers outside the regional capital of Urumchi on June 1.

05/23 - AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CITES HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN ASIA 

In its annual report, the human rights watchdog Amnesty International says many countries in Asia used the war on terror in 2005 to justify human-rights abuses

05/12 - DISAPPEARING DIASPORA IN UZBEKISTAN;THE UYGHURS  

Recently, bad news for Uyghurs came from the heartland of Central Eurasia. The Uzbek authorities agreed to Chinese demands to further clamp down on any activity of Uyghurs in Uzbekistan that has a flavor of supporting and advocating human rights and greater political as well as cultural rights for the Uyghurs in East Turkistan (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region)

05/10 - GROWING HEOIN TRADE HITS UYGHURS IN CHINA'S NORTHWEST

May 10, 2006: The Albanian National Center for Refugees in Tirana, where five Uyghur Muslims are staying. The men were released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. Photo: AFP

04/25 - GROWING HEOIN TRADE HITS UYGHURS IN CHINA'S NORTHWEST

Uyghur Muslim families in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang are feeling the devastating impact of the heroin trade as drug-trafficking routes become well-established, bringing addiction, crime, and HIV/AIDS infection in their wake.

04/25 - KAZAKSTAN/CHINA 

Yusuf Kadir Tohti (also known as Erdagan) (m), aged 35   Abdukadir Sidik (m), aged 30

04/25 - UZBEKISTAN/CANADA  

Husein Dzhelil (known as Huseyin Celil) (m), aged 37, Canadian national

04/17 - GUANTANAMO UIGHUR APPEAL REJECTED 

The Uighurs appear to have nowhere to go
The US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by two Chinese Muslims who are seeking release from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, in Cuba.

03/28 - LIST OF THE NAME OF SOME UIGHUR PRISONERS WARE NOT OFFICIALY DECLARED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT 

Ibrahim Tursun, 20, from Hotan city Keriye county, Kokyar village.Reported detained at Sanshi hangzi bazaar in Urumchi in 2005, July 8,

03/07 - CHINA: HUNDREDS DEAINED IN CONNECTION WITH NATIONAL PEOPLE’S CONGRESS

China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), is meeting for its annual session between Sunday 5 March and Tuesday 14 March. This is one of the busiest political events in China as thousands of high-ranking officials and legislators gather in Beijing to examine and approve the country's social and economic plans.

02/16 - INTERNET GIANTS GRILLED ON CHINA POLICES

The giants of the internet industry were put on the defensive on Wednesday when US lawmakers compared their compliance to Chinese censorship laws with the use of IBM’s technology in the organisation of the Holocaust.

02/14 - INNOCENT. BUT IN LIMBO AT GUANTANAMO  

Five Chinese Muslims, captured in Pakistan by mistake, try to get the US Supreme Court to take their case.

01/26 - AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE  

China: Internet companies assist censorship

(London/ Davos): Google's launch of a self-censoring Chinese search engine is the latest in a string of examples of global Internet companies caving in to pressure from the Chinese government. The service curtails the rights of Chinese Internet users to the freedom of expression and freedom of information enjoyed in other countries.

01/25 - GOOGLE CENSORS ITSELF FOR CHINA  

Leading internet company Google has said it will censor its search services in China in order to gain greater access to China's fast-growing market.

01/21 - 18,000 UYGURS ARRESTED FOR 'SECURITY THREATS' LAST YEAR  

More than 18,000 people were arrested for  threatening national security in the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang last year, a newspaper reported yesterday.

01/21 - BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE GENERAL POLITICAL SITUATION IN EASTERN TURKISTAN IN 2005

2005 has been claimed to be a year of “peace and stability” regarding the political situation in the Uygur District by both the Central government of China and the manipulated authorities of Eastern Turkistan.

01/10 - METSALIHAN EHMET AND KURBAN NIYAZ, TWO COMMUNIST LACKEYS, SCOUNDRELS AND BETRAYERS OF OUR PEOPLE HAVE BEEN LIQUIDATED BY TWO YOUNG HEROES OF THE NATION  

For the government of China, the last days of February 2005 became unforgettable and terrible. During these days, the government of China had mobilized all military power to block all roads all over Hoten County. Each car and pedestrian was checked and nearly each house was examined without legal permission document.

01/03 - SUICIDE UNDERLINES PLIGHT OF UYGHUR REFUGEES  

Burhan Zunun, a Uyghur from Ghulja in East Turkistan, died at mid-day on December 29 in hospital in Denmark, apparently as a result of injuries sustained during an attempted suicide in police detention on Christmas Day.