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China blogging suffers a blow
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Aziz Poonawalla
Tim Johnson is leaving McClatchy’s China Rises blog. Tim shares some personal highlights: In my day job, writing news stories for McClatchy, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to travel nearly everywhere in China. As I look at the map, I see I’ve been to every province and autonomous region except Guizhou. For beauty, little surpasses Guangxi…
Blogger Peter Guo (@amoiist) arrested in China, twitters it
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Aziz Poonawalla
I just saw a re-tweet from Rebecca MacKinnon that Chinese blogger Peter Guo has been arrested by authorities in China. Amazingly, it seems he managed to twitter his arrest while in custody, by using his phone while the police were asleep (see screenshot at right). There seems to be a crackdown on bloggers who wrote…
an Uyghur primer: the roots of discontent
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Aziz Poonawalla
The oppression of the Uyghur in China’s Xinjiang province has been getting a surprising amount of media coverage. The first reaction most people have upon hearing about the Uyghur is to ask, “who?” so it’s worth reviewing some basic information about who these people are and why their struggle is worth paying attention to. In…
The Uyghurs and the Ummah
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Aziz Poonawalla
Color me unsurprised – the plight of the Uyghurs hasn’t received much attention from the muslim world: A leading Uighur rights activist has criticised Muslim-majority countries for not speaking out against decades of alleged repression and persecution from the Chinese government. Speaking in Washington on Monday, Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman who was jailed for years…
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