Word: uighur
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...repatriation is tricky. Many of the detainees' home countries either refuse to take them or haven't guaranteed that they won't be tortured upon their return. Take the case of the Uighurs--five ethnic Muslims from western China--who recently left Gitmo. The State Department didn't want to send the men back to China, where they are wanted by the authorities, but after contacting scores of countries the only willing host was Albania, where no one speaks Uighur...
...Qing. Hence the continuing crackdown against the meditation movement Falun Gong or the raid last month on an unofficial Bible study in central Henan province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement by the Uighur ethnic group, Muslim activity outside of state mosques is suppressed and offenders sometimes jailed. Nor do Tibetans have free rein to worship the Dalai Lama, who was not invited to the World Buddhist Forum in Hangzhou two weeks ago. The main speaker was the Beijing-appointed Panchen Lama...
...strolling through the Yard, assailed at all sides by bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary of the Students Allied for South Uighur Vegetarianism or President of the Junior Guild for Amateur Bakecraft...
RELEASED. REBIYA KADEER, 58, prominent Muslim political prisoner; by the Chinese government; in Beijing. Kadeer, a member of the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group in northwest China's Xinjiang province, was arrested in August 1999 and sentenced to eight years in prison for "providing secret information to foreigners." Her release came in advance of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beijing. Kadeer immediately flew to the U.S. and, upon arrival in Washington, D.C., told a cheering crowd, "I will keep on fighting for my people until my last breath...
...stretching from Central Asia to the Balkans, one need only step inside London's Royal Academy of Arts. "Turks," the institute's latest extravaganza (through April 12), draws visitors into a souk of dimly lit, treasure-filled galleries. Following a timespan from 600 to 1600 A.D., from the nomadic Uighur people of Chinese Central Asia to the Ottoman splendor of Sultan Mehmed III in Istanbul, "Turks" illustrates how successive groups learned from the cultures they encountered and sometimes conquered. It's a tale of assimilation and adaptation in the exotic landscapes crossed by the Silk Road, the ancient network...