Tagged with Uyghur

Last Wednesday saw another deadly terrorist attack in China, this time in the far-western province of Xinjiang. In what’s believed to have been a suicide attack, two bombers detonated explosives at a train station in Urumqi, the province’s capital, killing one person and injuring seventy-nine. The blast coincided with the visit of China’s President, Xi […]

The arrest and detention of the outspoken Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti (pictured) in Beijing on 15 January demonstrates that the Chinese Communist Party has returned to an uncompromising, hard line approach toward Xinjiang and the Uyghur. Tohti, an economist at the Central University for Nationalities in Beijing, was reportedly arrested after 30 police raided his […]