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 Obama: 
 We Won't 
 Make Gitmo 
 Deadline 

Pres tells Fox's Major Garrett prison will close after Jan 2010

Nov 18, 09 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay prison won't close by the January deadline he set when he took office, President Obama admitted today, but he still hopes to shut it next year. Obama is "not disappointed" in missing the deadline, he says in a FoxNews interview airing this morning, since closing the facility... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Guantanamo Bay • Fox News • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Gitmo • guantanamo deadline • closing guantanamo • obama fox news

 China Executes 9 
 Over Uighur Riots 

Executed were convicted of murder during Xinjiang province unrest

Nov 9, 09 1:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Nine people convicted of murder and arson during July riots in China’s Xinjiang province were executed today. Chinese news services did not identify the executed, but previous statements suggest that they are Uighurs. The riots in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, left 197 people dead as Uighurs... More »

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China • riots • ethnic conflict • ethnic violence • ethnic tensions • Han Chinese • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims • Urumqi

 6 Gitmo Uighurs Arrive in Palau 

Latest transfers trade prison for ocean views

Nov 1, 09 7:56 AM CST
(AP) - Six Chinese Muslims newly released from Guantanamo Bay traded life behind bars today for rooms with ocean view in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau. The Uighurs, in US custody since 2001, were met at the airport in the middle of the night by President Johnson Toribiong and taken to... More »

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Guantanamo prisoners • detainees • Uighurs • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

Dozens 'Disappeared'
After China Riots

Rights group: Uighurs vanished after being detained by police

Oct 21, 09 3:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dozens of Uighur men and boys rounded up in the wake of the riots that shook China's Xinjiang province over the summer are missing, according to a reports from a human rights group. Interviews with families in Urumqi found evidence that 43 people had vanished since being taken away by... More »

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China • riots • Human Rights Watch • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

(AP) - The Supreme Court will hear a new case about the rights of Guantanamo detainees, this time involving prisoners who remain in custody even after the Pentagon determines they're not a threat to the United States, the court said today. Last year, the court said in a 5-4 ruling that federal... More »

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China • Guantanamo Bay • US Supreme Court • Uighurs • Obama administration • Bermuda • Palau

Chinese Court Sentences
6 to Death for Ethnic Riots

All the condemned appear to be Uighurs

Oct 12, 09 6:56 AM CDT
(AP) - A court in China's far western Xinjiang region sentenced six men to death today over riots between Muslim Uighurs and members of the Han Chinese majority that killed nearly 200 people in July. The sentences—the first for any of the scores of suspects arrested in the rioting—appeared aimed... More »

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China • riots • death sentence • ethnic violence • ethnic tensions • Xinjiang • Uighurs

 Uighur Won't Leave Brother 
 at Gitmo—So He's Staying 

Neither is guilty, but one has no offer of resettlement

Sep 28, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bahtiyar Mahnut, a Chinese Uighur detainee at Guantanamo Bay, is guilty of no crime. In fact, he’s free to leave and even has an offer of sanctuary from the island nation of Palau, like all of his compatriots save one. And that one, his brother Arkin, is why he’... More »

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China • mental illness • brother • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Gitmo • Palau • Bahtiyar Mahnut • Arkin Mahmud

 9 Busted 
 in China 
 Syringe 
 Attacks 

Spate of random stabbings unsettle western Urumqi

Sep 11, 09 4:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese authorities have arrested nine suspects in connection with the recent spate of syringe attacks in Urumqi, reports state media. Some 531 people had been stabbed with hypodermic needles in Urumqi, most but not all of whom were Han Chinese, according to police. The attacks had set off another round... More »

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China • attack • ethnic tensions • syringes • Han Chinese • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

10 EU Countries, Others, in Deals to Take Gitmo Detainees

White House upbeat on 80 cleared for release

Aug 20, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House, in talks ranging from Australia to Georgia, is making progress on its attempts to resettle Guantanamo Bay detainees, the Washington Post reports. Ten EU countries have agreed to take detainees; the US is negotiating with Saudi Arabia to accept Guantanamo's 98 Yemenis; and 11 detainees, including four... More »

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Saudi Arabia • European Union • Georgia • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs

(Newser) - Four Chinese Uighurs newly released from Gitmo probably never imagined this in their cramped cells: All are now working at a plush Bermuda golf course to help prepare it for the PGA Grand Slam in October. The four men began their jobs last week at the Port Royal course, Reuters... More »

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 Unrest Shines Light on 
 Chinese Ethnic Fractures 

'Monolithic myth' fades after riots

Jul 13, 09 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The government clings to the notion of a “harmonious” country, but China is home to 56 “official” ethnic groups and many unofficial divisions—which are widening as some push for “increased cultural nationalism and resistance to Beijing central control,” writes Dru Gladney in the Wall Street ... More »

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China • minorities • ethnic conflict • ethnic diversity • Han Chinese • Uighurs • civil unrest

(Newser) - Chinese authorities forced mosques in Urumqi to stay closed today and reimposed a curfew in the restive western city, reports the BBC. The curfew was lifted after thousands of troops had seemed to restore order between Han Chinese and Uighur Muslims, who have battled in the worst ethnic violence China... More »

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China • Islam • mosque • ethnic conflict • ethnic violence • Han Chinese • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

(Newser) - The crisis in China's Xinjiang province has given an activist living in America and the Uighur movement a rare moment in the spotlight, reports the New York Times. Rebiya Kadeer, 62, has been championing the rights of China's Muslim minority from a Washington office since 2005 when she came to... More »

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China • exile • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Rebiya Kadeer

 As Riots Quiet, 
 China Vows to 
 Execute Killers 

Anyone found guilty of murder will be executed, says party head

Jul 8, 09 12:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - After thousands of troops were deployed to quell ethnic unrest in the Chinese city of Urumqi, “the situation is under control,” said officials—who vowed to execute anyone behind the riot's 156 deaths. Most of those charged with murder so far have been students, said the city’s... More »

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China • police • riots • ethnic conflict • Xinjiang • Uighurs • civil unrest • paramilitary • Urumqi

(Newser) - Chinese President Hu Jintao abandoned plans to attend the G8 summit and returned to China from Italy to deal with growing unrest in Xinjiang after some 160 people were killed in riots there, the Financial Times reports. Troops have flooded into the provincial capital, Urumqi, in a bid to restore... More »

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China • G8 summit • race riot • Hu Jintao • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

(Newser) - Thousands of ethnic Han Chinese rioted in the western city of Urumqi today, destroying shops and property belonging to Muslim Uighurs in retaliation for Han deaths over the weekend, the Guardian reports. Police tried to disperse the mob with tear gas, but many rioters remained, throwing rocks at mosques and... More »

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China • race riot • riots • Han Chinese • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

(Newser) - China has clamped down hard on Xinjiang province after at least 156 people died in riots in Urumqi Sunday night, the New York Times reports. More than 1000 people have been detained and 20,000 security forces deployed in the capital. Cell phone and Internet services have been cut off... More »

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China • protests • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi • Kashgar

 As Riot Death Toll Mounts, 
 China Blames Uighur Exiles 

Uighur activists claim police opened fire on peaceful demonstration

Jul 6, 09 3:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chinese state media are reporting that 156 people are dead and at least 828 injured and in the western city where clashes broke out between paramilitary police and Uighur demonstrators, Al Jazeera eports. Though the protests in Urumqi, Xinjian province, seemed to have died down, police are said to be... More »

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China • protests • police crackdown • political demonstrations • Han Chinese • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Urumqi

 140 Dead in China Muslim Riots 

1,000 said to have protested Beijing's handling of Uighur/Chinese incident

Jul 6, 09 2:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 140 people have been killed and 800 injured in clashes between rioters and police in China’s restive oil-rich Xinjiang region, reports the BBC. The clashes are the deadliest outbreak of violence in China in several years. The violence began after more than 1000 protesters—primarily Uighur Muslims—... More »

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China • protests • separatists • political demonstrations • Xinjiang • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims

(Newser) - Palau’s president Johnson Toribiong today said five of the 13 Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay and set to be resettled in his country don't want to go, AFP reports. “A handful may not come,” he said. A recent delegation from the country to Gitmo met with just... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Chinese Muslims • President Obama • Palau • Johnson Toribiong

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