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» UHRP urges release of Uyghur students detained for organizing peaceful protest
The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) urges Chinese government authorities to release two young Uyghur students detained in East Turkestan (also known as Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in the People’s Republic of China (PRC)) in relation to the organization of a peaceful protest.
» WUC and UAA Submission for the Fourth Session of the Universal Periodic Review
In this submission, the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association provides information under the general guidelines for the preperation of information.

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» Out of the Closet: China’s “Other Tibet”
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Western Sources Unrated
The 2008 Olympics held in Beijing helped bring into the limelight the plight of ethnic minorities in China, subject to ‘gross human rights violations’, according to Amnesty International.
» Arrests Increased in Chinese Region
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Uyghur Related Unrated
In the first official statistics on China’s security crackdown last year in advance of the Beijing Olympics, a report published Sunday in an official newspaper said that more than 1,100 people had been indicted in the western region of Xinjiang on suspicion of “endangering state security” in the first 11 months of last year.
» China says arrested 1,300 Uighurs during 2008
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Uyghur Related Unrated
East Turkistan is home to more than eight million Uighur population, Muslims who have complained for decades of political oppression.
» British students fined for 'illegal map-making' in China
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Uyghur Related Unrated
Two British students have been fined for illegally carrying out a survey and making maps in the restive Chinese province of Xinjiang.
» Australia Says “No” to Taking Gitmo Detainees
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Uyghur Related Unrated
Despite previous reports that Australia was offering to take some Guantanamo Bay detainees, the government says it has refused two U.S. resettlement requests.
» Finland Considers Offering Asylum to Guantánamo Detainees
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Uyghur Related Unrated
Finland is to begin discussions this week on whether to offer asylum to former terrorist suspects detained at the Guantánamo prison in Cuba.
» Xinjiang becomes second largest crude oil producer in China
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Uyghur Related Unrated
In 2008, Xinjiang produced 27.4 million tons of crude oil, up one million tons from the previous year.
» Let us improve ourselves
By UAA Administrator | Published Yesterday | Western Sources Unrated
Terrorist work must be condemned and brought to justice from all regions of the world. Yet, race and all people of Islam should not be considered as terrorists, that is, all religions have waged war in the old days and now; do we still hold the people of today, at fault for their ancestors fault? We do not.
» 2008 a year of triumph and tragedy for China
By UAA Administrator | Published 12/31/2008 | China Unrated
From a devastating earthquake to the Beijing Olympics, China witnessed a tumultuous year of triumph and tragedy in 2008 that sorely tested the Communist Party's ability to manage.