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...public face of the Uighur movement. A successful businesswoman and local leader, she was jailed by the Chinese authorities in 1999 on charges of betraying state secrets. After her prison term, she was exiled in 2005, and she now lives in the Washington area, where she leads the World Uyghur Congress. Pressure from the U.S. was instrumental in securing her release, and she has forged strong contacts on Capitol Hill. "To blame the civil disturbances and bloodshed on human-rights leader Rebiya Kadeer is ludicrous," Representative Chris Smith, a senior member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, said...
...Chinese government says the Xinjiang demonstrations and ensuing violence were provoked by Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur activist and businesswoman who lives in exile in the U.S., and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), the Munich-based exile group she heads. Kadeer was imprisoned for nearly six years in China on a national security-related conviction, a charge she says was politically motivated. The WUC denied this week that it had any role in the violence and said security forces used heavy-handed methods to confront demonstrators who were attempting to protest peacefully for equal rights under...
...Beydulla fled again to Turkey in March 2006 but in his second stay, he was stabbed in the leg in a mugging. He was unsure whether it was a random incident or if he was targeted for being Uyghur. After the experience, he no longer felt safe there, so he found a friend in Egypt and left Turkey for University there...
...government has, in past years, changed its policies to make it more difficult to teach Uyghur language...in elementary education, to practice religion,” said Mark C. Elliott, a professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the EALC department, “so in many ways I think the general perception on the ground for many Uyghurs is that their situation has gotten worse in the first decade of the 21st century...
...Beydulla said that despite the incident, the majority of the Uyghur population is peaceful...