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Tiananmen Leader Says World Failed To Save Mentor Liu

Exiled Tiananmen Square student protest leader Wu'er Kaixi said on Friday the world had "failed to save" Nobel peace...

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China’s Uighur Muslims Struggle Under ‘police State’

Worshippers quietly passed through metal detectors as they entered the central mosque in China's far western city of...

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Chinese Official ‘demoted For Not Smoking In Front of Muslims’

A Chinese official who allegedly declined to smoke in front of Muslims in Xinjiang has been demoted for taking an...

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Reporters Without Borders Opens First Asia Office In Taiwan

International rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it is opening its first Asia office in Taiwan after...

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China Bans Beards and Veils In Xinjiang

China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against...

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China Uighurs: Xinjiang Ban On Long Beards and Veils

China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against...

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Xinjiang Ban On Long Beards and Veils

China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against...

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China’s Xinjiang Cracks Down On Muslim Practices In…

China has announced bans on beards and burkas in its remote violence-wracked Xinjiang region as part of tighter...

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Bloody Islamic State Video Puts China In Cross-Hairs

Islamic State militants from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers",...

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China Holds Mass Police Rally In Xinjiang As Hundreds Sent To Anti-Terror ‘frontline’

More than 10,000 armed police in China's western Xinjiang region staged a mass rally in the capital Urumqi, state media...

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China Offers Huge Anti-Terror Awards In Xinjiang

China has created a 100 million yuan ($14.5 million) fund for "anti-terrorism" awards in a violence-wracked part of the...

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Chinese Police In Restive Xinjiang To Track Cars By GPS

A prefecture in China's restive Xinjiang region has ordered all vehicles to be equipped with GPS-like tracking...

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Some Uighurs Fighting and Dying In Syria

An exiled advocate for China's ethnic Uighur minority said Monday that some of the group were fighting and dying in...