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» U.N. urges China, ethnic groups to halt violence | | The top United Nations human rights official on Tuesday called on Chinese authorities and ethnic groups in the Muslim region of Xinjiang to refrain from further violence after what she called "a major tragedy." |
| | Rebiya Kadeer, long a champion for China's 10 million Uighurs, is blamed by the Beijing government as the instigator of protests that left scores of the ethnic minority Muslims dead and hundreds more detained |
| | US lawmakers on Monday urged the United States to strongly condemn the crackdown against Muslim Uighurs in China's Xinjiang region to avoid a repeat of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. |
| |  New protests have flared in Urumqi, two days after 156 people died and 800 were injured in the western Chinese city. |
| | Chinese police have arrested 1,434 people over rioting in Xinjiang province, official state media says. |
| |  Chinese authorities say more than 700 people are detained following deadly clashes in Urumqi, as ethnic minority Uyghurs report strip-searches, roadblocks, and thwarted protests elsewhere in the region. |
| | China blames overseas Uyghurs for inciting rioting in the northwestern city, saying at least 156 people died in the violence. |
| | The Chinese government should exercise maximum restraint in the face of unrest and violence on July 5 in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Human Rights Watch said today. China should allow the United Nations to conduct an independent investigation into the events. |
| | Witnesses say an ethnic protest has spread to a second city in China's western Xinjiang province after riots rocked the region's capital, killing at least 140 and injuring more than 800. |
| | The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) condemns in the strongest possible terms the brutal crackdown of a peaceful protest of young Uyghurs in Urumchi on Sunday by Chinese security forces. According to Uyghur eyewitnesses, scores of Uyghur protesters were killed and dozens were injured after security forces used lethal force to disperse the peaceful protesters and to stop the spread of this peaceful protest. |
| | The death toll in violent clashes in China's northwestern Xinjiang region rose sharply Monday, with the government saying that 140 had been killed in what appears to be one of the deadliest episodes of unrest in China in decades. |
| | Internet users have not been able to go online in Urumqi, the northwestern Chinese city hit by ethnic violence that killed at least 140 people, residents said Monday. |
| | In the deadliest social unrest in China since the Tiananmen Square crackdown, 140 people have been killed and more than 800 wounded in riots that rocked the city of Urumqi at the weekend. |
| | The Chinese state news agency reported Monday that at least 140 people were killed and 816 injured when rioters clashed with the police in a regional capital in western China after days of rising tensions between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese. |
| | Eight hundred people are injured and hundreds are reported arrested in Urumqi. The Uighur demonstrators were protesting against racial discrimination. |
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