Thema: Urumqi

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Chinese Communist Party Secretary for Xinjiang Replaced

The Chinese Communist Party has replaced its long-serving secretary for the Xinjiang region, Wang Lequan, state-run Xinhua news reported on Saturday. No explanation was given for demoting Wang, who held the most powerful CCP position in the western region since 1994. But Wang was the target of massive public anger after his botched...

29.04.2010

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China: Four More Sentenced to Death Over Xinjiang Riots

Four more people have been sentenced to death over the bloody ethnic riots that rocked Xinjiang in China’s northwest last July. The death sentences were issued on Monday at a court in Urumqi, the region’s capital and the site of the riots. The riots had left hundreds of people dead. The Chinese regime largely blames ethnic Uighurs for...

28.01.2010

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HK Journalists Say Xinjiang Authorities Lied About Beatings

While covering news about unrest in Urumqi last week, three Hong Kong journalists became news themselves. This incident report was published by the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of China last week. Journalists from Hong Kong’s TVB and Now TV were in Urumqi reporting on the protests there—when armed police tackled them as they tried to...

11.09.2009

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Riots Quiet Down After Party Officials Sacked in Xinjiang

Riots in China’s Xinjiang region have died down in recent days after two high-ranking Communist Party officials were fired. But some locals are still living in fear. A spate of syringe needle stabbings in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, sparked more than ten of thousand residents to protest in the streets last week. Doctors are trying to...

07.09.2009

Lage unklar in Urumqi

Neue Festnahmen in Xinjiang

Peking - Knapp einen Monat nach den schweren Unruhen im Nordwesten Chinas hat die Polizei weitere 319 Menschen festgenommen. Wie die staatlich kontrollierte Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua meldete, werden sie verdächtigt, in die Auseinandersetzungen zwischen der muslimischen Minderheit der Uiguren und den Han-Chinesen in der Provinz Xinjiang verwickelt...

03.08.2009

Nichts mit Islam zu tun

Warum Urumqi die KP Chinas in Angst versetzt hat

In all den Jahren, in denen ich die Kommunistische Partei Chinas (KPCh) und ihre immer länger werdende Liste an Opfern beobachtet habe, glaube ich nicht, dass ich jemals ein einziges Ereignis gesehen habe, das mehr über die Schwäche der durchschnittlichen Medien aussagt, als das, was in Urumqi, der Hauptstadt der Provinz Xinjiang, in dieser...

20.07.2009