| International Business Times - May 15, 2012 By IBTimes Staff Reporter: Subscribe to IBTimes's RSS feed Japan has allowed the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) to meet in Tokyo on Monday, drawing renewed anger from China. |
| Wall Street Journal - May 15, 2012 China considers the group, the World Uyghur Congress, an "anti-China separatist organization." Calling it a private group, Tokyo says it won't interfere with its activities. |
People's Daily Online - 10 hours ago By Zheng Xiwen (People's Daily) With strong instigation of the right-wing force, Japanese government had openly allowed the “World Uyghur Congress” to convene the so-called "Fourth Representative Conference" in Japan on May 14, giving the green light ... |
| More families of Uyghurs missing in the aftermath of ethnic violence in China's Xinjiang region in 2009 have come forward to highlight their cases in the absence of information from the Chinese authorities. |
| Radio Australia - May 11, 2012 Japan has granted exiled Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer a visa, despite China's reported request not to. Ms Kadeer is travelling to Japan to attend the World Uyghur Congress's general assembly. Her arrival will coincide with Japanese Prime Minister ... |
Asia Times Online - May 16, 2012 By Kent Ewing HONG KONG - For 24 hours last week, it appeared China had witnessed its first female suicide bomb attack, but the perpetrator wasn't a Uyghur protester or a Tibetan separatist; rather, she appeared to have been one of the millions of ... |
Radio Free Asia - Apr 26, 2012 An Uyghur separatist group acknowledged that six men cited in a new “terrorist” list by Beijing are its members, defending its “holy war” to gain independence for China's northwestern Xinjiang region where minority Uyghurs complain of discrimination ... |
Huffington Post (blog) - Apr 20, 2012 But they chose not to do so -- even though no one in the British Council is going to be tortured for saying what they wish, as a Chinese, Tibetan or Uyghur writer can be. Used with permission, courtesy of the Tibet Society. Thirty one state-approved ... |
Mainichi Daily News - May 15, 2012 The cancellation could be linked to the start on Monday in Tokyo of a meeting of the World Uyghur Congress' general assembly, about which China expressed strong discontent. |
| Pakistan Observer - 14 hours ago The Wednesday talks could however be overshadowed by the annual conference of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) - an exile group that seeks to raise awareness about persecution of Uyghurs in China - taking place in Tokyo. |
MFA China (press release) - May 16, 2012 Q: It is reported that some members of the "World Uyghur Congress" visited the Yasukuni Shrine on May 14. How does China comment? |
RTT News - May 14, 2012 Addressing the general assembly of the organization that opened in Tokyo on Monday, World Uyghur Congress President Rebiya Kadeer, who lives in the United States, said the Chinese government was stepping up its violent and oppressive policies against ... |
| One month before the World Uyghur Congress is taking place in Tokyo, Japanese politicians urge China to respect the rights of the Uyghurs. Japanese parliamentarians have set up a caucus supporting China's minority Uyghurs, saying that Beijing should ... |
MarketWatch (press release) - May 7, 2012 Initial roll-out plans are focused on the Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region (pop. 21.8m) of northwestern China. Discussions have concentrated on proposals for the regional deployment of XcelMobility sales and support personnel in order to introduce ... |
The Daily Yomiuri - May 15, 2012 The move may reflect China's displeasure with the World Uyghur Congress being held in Tokyo. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda failed to hold bilateral talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing earlier this week even though leaders of Japan, ... |
| The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) has called on the international community to recognise the on-going violation of the right to freedom of expression in East Turkestan, which they condemned in light of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2012. |
Washington Post - Apr 27, 2012 John B. Carnett / Popular Science via Getty Images Rebiya Kadeer has been a leader in fighting for the rights of the Muslim Uyghur minority and has called for greater autonomy for Uyghurs in China. In 2000, the government convicted her of "endangering ... |
National Review Online (blog) - Apr 22, 2012 The first is on the Uyghurs of Central Asia: We know that the Uyghur are a new population, which emerged in the past 2000 years due to admixture between a resident West Eurasian population, and Turkic groups. |
Focus Taiwan News Channel - May 11, 2012 Two recent events in China -- the dramatic escape of blind human rights activist Chen Guangchen from illegal house arrest and a deadly clash between Han Chinese and ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province -- revealed worsening human rights conditions in ... |
Hong Kong Standard - May 14, 2012 The exiled head of the World Uyghur Congress, Rebiya Kadeer told those assembled that Beijing's policy of "forcible assimilation" was unacceptable in a modern democracy. |
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