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• China pressured Australia to refuse six Uighurs: Palau President

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Koror(Palau), Nov 15(ANI): Palau President Johnson Toribiong has indicated that China may have pressured Australia to refuse to take six Uighur men released from Guantanamo Bay and sent to the Pacific island nation.Toribiong said that though Palau welcomed the six Uighurs (from a region in China’s far west), who ...
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• China & human rights

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China ; Human Rights Watch ; Amnesty International China Focuses on Territorial Issues as It Equates Tibet to U.S. Civil War South By EDWARD WONG While much attention during President Obama’s visit will be focused on broad international issues ...
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• Ex-Gitmo Apes Not Happy in Palau, Demand Resettlement in Australia

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 582
  Dateline“We hope that the Australian government… will change their mind about rejecting us…”After eight years locked up in the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, six...
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• Top White House Lawyer Expected To Resign

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor Washington, D.C. (AHN) - White House Counsel Greg Craig, the top official responsible for closing the prison camp in the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is expected to announce his resignation on Friday.
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• NYT > World: China Executes 9 Over Ethnic Riots

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 173
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The executions, related to rioting in a western regional capital in July, were reported by a state news agency.
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• Violence meets violence in China

  
  Human Rights — Authority: 120
  A state news agency in China confirmed today that nine people have been executed for their role in the rioting that overtook the northern city of Urumqi in July. As reported earlier on this blog, the rioting had a long simmering ethnic component to it that pitted the majority Muslim Uighur population against the ...
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• China Executes Nine Over Xinjiang Riots

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  According to news reports, nine have been executed for their roles in the July 5th Xinjiang riots. From Edward Wong of New York Times : Nine people have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that convulsed a western regional capital in July and left nearly 200 people dead, a state news agency reported ...
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• China executes nine over Xinjiang unrest

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 527
  China has executed 9 people over deadly ethnic unrest in its far-western Xinjiang region, regional authorities said Monday, the 1st executions since the violence in July. "The first group of 9 people who were sentenced to death recently have already been executed in succession, with the approval of the Supreme ...
  3 weeks ago

• Nine people executed after China riots

  
  Death Penalty News — Authority: 527
  (CNN) -- Nine people have been executed in connection with ethnic riots last July that killed about 200 people in western Chinas Xinjiang region, the state-run China News Service reported Monday. The executions occurred "recently," said the service, which added no more information about the executions. ...
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• China Executes 9 Uighurs Over Ethnic Riots

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 612
  BEIJING — Nine men have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the first suspects put to death in the unrest, Chinese state media reported Monday. The worst ethnic unrest in decades began July 5 when minority Uighurs attacked Han, who make up Chinas dominant ...
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• China Executes 9 Over Ethnic Riots

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 153
  The executions, related to rioting in a western regional capital in July, were reported by a state news agency.
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• China executes eight Uighurs and one Han…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 539
  China executes eight Uighurs and one Han, Indicts 20 more over July “ethnic riots.” Uighur activists claim verdicts were political and the executed did not receive a fair trial. The news service said another 20 people were indicted on Monday on charges related to the deaths of 18 people and other crimes ...
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• China Executes 9 Over Ethnic Riots

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Nine men have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, Chinese state media reported Monday.
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• Uighurs Seek a Passage to India

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  The Times of India writes that some Uighurs from Xinjiang province are hoping to immigrate to India: Before (Kashgar resident) Ibrahim saw his savings go out with the light on his modem, he could not imagine living anywhere but Kashgar, and encouraged his family to learn Mandarin and become a part of the ...
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• Uighur Detainees Face Culture Shock in Palau

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  The Uighur detainees at Guantanamo Bay who were recently released to the Pacific island nation of Palau will likely have a difficult time adjusting, VOA reports : “I think their primary concern is their legal status in Palau and whether they could permanently stay there,” said Alim Seytoff of the Uyghur ...
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• Who Are the Six Uighurs Released From Guantánamo to Palau?

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 482
  Who Are the Six Uighurs Released From Guantánamo to Palau? by Andy Worthington, November 04, 2009 http://original.antiwar.com/worthington/2009/11/03/who-are-the-six-uighurs-released/  Over the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo – Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province – were ...
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• Uighur prisoner asks what is the difference between the US constitution and the Communist constitution? by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk4 November 2009At the weekend, six of the remaining 13 Uighurs in Guantánamo — Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province — were released to resume new lives in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau (population: 20,000). I have written at length ...
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• China Cracks Down Hard on Uighur Jihad

  
  Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami — Authority: 582
  No political correctness, not here:AP, BEIJING – Police in China’s far west have stepped up a hunt for people who took part in deadly ethnic riots there four months ago and other so-called...
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• World Briefing | Asia: China: Foreign Ministry Criticizes U.S. for Sending Uighur Detainees to Palau

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  China has demanded that the Uighurs be returned to China, but the United States has refused because it says they would face persecution there.
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• Muslim Ex-Gitmo Detainees Face Challenges in Palau

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 637
  From the Associated Press : Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation’s already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder. The ex-detainees, who are ...
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