Join the Uyghur Human Rights Mailing List
The UHRP mailing list will provide subscribers with important news and updates regarding Uyghur-related human rights issues. This list will usually generate no more than two emails per month. Click here to sign-up.
A short walk from the National Stadium, near a busy coach station, there is a wire fence around a plot of land and a plain white sign with words in Mandarin and English that read: “Military Administrative District, No Admittance.”
Although Kazakh musician Saadet Türköz occasionally took to the stage to sing songs at local festivals at the age of 29 or 30, if someone had told her that one day she would become a musician who binds continents together, she would not have believed it.
In a few short weeks the party Beijing has been preparing for the last eight years will finally kick off, and the government's disconnect with the people attending the party is growing ever deeper.
In solitary confinement in China, prisoner tells relatives he's so desperate for sunlight and human contact he'll go anywhere, including a forced labour camp.
China has gone to extraordinary lengths to spruce up its image before next month's Olympics: shuttering factories to reduce air pollution, mopping up algae in sailing waters, harassing critics and threatening journalists.
A guest at Tomorrow Square on People's Square has alerted us to this document entitled "Safety measures for the tenants of Tomorrow Square for the Olympic period" posted in the building.
Fearing terrorist threats, Beijing has deployed tens of thousands of security personnel, banned cars into the capital and is installing surface-to-air missiles near stadiums.
Two public buses exploded during the Monday morning rush hour in the city of Kunming, killing at least two people and injuring 14 others in what the authorities described as deliberate attacks as China is tightening security nationwide and warning of possible terrorist threats in advance of next month's Olympic Games.
With less than three weeks to go before the Olympic Games begin, questions are already being raised on how China is going to handle political protests during the Olympics.
In a little-noticed news story last week, US lawmakers strongly condemned what they called China’s brutal pre-Olympic crackdown in the far northwest Xinjiang region, which is populated by the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim, Turkic ethnic group.
full story
printer version
In solitary confinement in China, prisoner tells relatives he's so desperate for sunlight and human contact he'll go anywhere, including a forced labour camp.