Urumqi mayor vows continued crackdown against separatists in China's western Xinjiang region China's crackdown on suspected separatists in the western region of Xinjiang ...
A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced four people to death over deadly riots in July, bringing to 26 the number of ...
Funding for public security in China's restive Xinjiang region will nearly double in 2010, state media said Wednesday, following ethnic unrest that left nearly 200 people dead last year. A budget proposal placed before Xinjiang's legislature on Tuesday called for 2.89 billion ...
The family of a Briton executed in China have written to the government in London demanding an inquest into his death, their lawyers said. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father-of-three whom supporters say was mentally ill, was executed on Tuesday for drug smuggling ...
Relatives made a last-minute plea for mercy Monday for a Briton scheduled to be executed in China for drug smuggling after visiting the man whom they say may be mentally ill. Akmal Shaikh, a 53-year-old father of three, was not aware that ...
Five more people have been sentenced to death over ethnic violence in July in China's Xinjiang region, an official said Thursday, as Beijing's human rights record comes under a harsh new spotlight. The sentences bring to 22 the number of people condemned ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court sentenced five more people to death for their part in bloody ethnic rioting earlier this year in Urumqi, the capital of far western Xinjiang region, a local government spokeswoman said on Thursday. The new trial, not ...
FILE - In this July 18, 2009 file photo, wind turbines produced by Goldwind Science & Technology Ltd. are seen at the Da Bancheng Wind Farm, south of Urumqi, in Xinjiang, China. Goldwind and other Chinese wind energy companies have grown rapidly ...
A court in China's restive Xinjiang sentenced three more people to death Friday for their roles in July ethnic violence, state media said, raising the total condemned to die or executed to 17. The court in the regional capital Urumqi sentenced another ...
A court in China's restive Xinjiang region sentenced five people to death on Thursday for murder and other crimes committed during deadly unrest in July, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. Two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in ...
A court in China's restive Xinjiang region sentenced five people to death on Thursday for murder and other crimes committed during deadly unrest in July, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. Two others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the court in ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court on Thursday handed down a further five death sentences to people convicted of murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in the far western Xinjiang region in July in which almost 200 people died. The official ...
