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Alibaba "Eliminates" Ethnic Tag That Identifies Uighur Muslims
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sought to distance itself from a face-recognition software feature devised by its cloud computing unit that could help users to identify members of the country's Muslim Uighur minority.
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US Imposes Sanctions On Chinese Company Over Abuse Of Ethnic Minorities
The United States intensified its economic pressure on China's Xinjiang province on Friday, imposing sanctions on a powerful Chinese company and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities.
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China May Sue Researcher Over Report On Forced Sterilisation Of Uighurs
After several reports of the Chinese government torturing its ethnic minority community surfaced, the authorities are now considering to sue the researchers and think tanks who are behind these revelations.
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China Orders People "Poisoned By Extremism, Terrorism" To Confess Crimes
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
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Rights Group Alleges China Using Big Data as Repression Tool
Human Rights Watch says it has found new evidence that authorities in one of China's most repressive regions are sweeping up citizens' personal information.
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ISIS Releases New Video, Threatens Attack On China
ISIS terrorists from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers", according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.
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China Police Kill 4 Over Xinjiang Attack: Report
Chinese police have shot dead four people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said, in the bloodiest such incident in months.
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Expelled French Journalist 'Surreal' Ahead Of China Departure
A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.
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Indonesian Police Arrest 2 More Suspected Terrorists
Indonesian police said they have arrested two more suspected terrorists including a member of China's ethnic Uighur minority who was allegedly preparing to be a suicide bomber.
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China Says Communist Party Officials Among Xinjiang Attackers
Officials from China's ruling Communist Party have supported violent attacks in restive Xinjiang, a top regional official said in remarks highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.
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China Holds Uighur Who 'Planned Bomb Attack': Report
China has arrested a member of its mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority who planned a bomb attack after returning from a training camp in Syria, state media said today.
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China Controls Narrative of Violence in Tense West
When a remote county in China's far west exploded last week in what appeared to be the country's worst ethnic violence since 2009, it took the government six days to put out an exact death toll. It isn't clear when a full picture of what happened might emerge, if ever, given Beijing's iron-fisted grip on the minority region.
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Clash in China's Xinjiang kills 16: state media
Sixteen people were killed in a clash in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, state media reported on Monday.
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Ethnic minority 'biggest victims' of Tiananmen attack: China media
China's mainly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority will be the "biggest victims" of Monday's Tiananmen Square attack, which has been dubbed terrorism by the authorities, state media said on Thursday.
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Uighur group fears 'crackdown' after Tiananmen crash
An overseas Uighur rights group fears a "fierce state crackdown" by China on the largely Muslim ethnic minority after Monday's car crash at Tiananmen Square, it said on Wednesday.
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Alibaba "Eliminates" Ethnic Tag That Identifies Uighur Muslims
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sought to distance itself from a face-recognition software feature devised by its cloud computing unit that could help users to identify members of the country's Muslim Uighur minority.
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US Imposes Sanctions On Chinese Company Over Abuse Of Ethnic Minorities
The United States intensified its economic pressure on China's Xinjiang province on Friday, imposing sanctions on a powerful Chinese company and two officials for what it said were human rights abuses against Uighurs and other ethnic minorities.
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China May Sue Researcher Over Report On Forced Sterilisation Of Uighurs
After several reports of the Chinese government torturing its ethnic minority community surfaced, the authorities are now considering to sue the researchers and think tanks who are behind these revelations.
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China Orders People "Poisoned By Extremism, Terrorism" To Confess Crimes
A city in China's far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are "poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism", in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
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Rights Group Alleges China Using Big Data as Repression Tool
Human Rights Watch says it has found new evidence that authorities in one of China's most repressive regions are sweeping up citizens' personal information.
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ISIS Releases New Video, Threatens Attack On China
ISIS terrorists from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers", according to a terror-tracking firm, in what experts said marked the first ISIS threat against Chinese targets.
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China Police Kill 4 Over Xinjiang Attack: Report
Chinese police have shot dead four people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said, in the bloodiest such incident in months.
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Expelled French Journalist 'Surreal' Ahead Of China Departure
A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.
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Indonesian Police Arrest 2 More Suspected Terrorists
Indonesian police said they have arrested two more suspected terrorists including a member of China's ethnic Uighur minority who was allegedly preparing to be a suicide bomber.
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China Says Communist Party Officials Among Xinjiang Attackers
Officials from China's ruling Communist Party have supported violent attacks in restive Xinjiang, a top regional official said in remarks highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.
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China Holds Uighur Who 'Planned Bomb Attack': Report
China has arrested a member of its mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority who planned a bomb attack after returning from a training camp in Syria, state media said today.
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China Controls Narrative of Violence in Tense West
When a remote county in China's far west exploded last week in what appeared to be the country's worst ethnic violence since 2009, it took the government six days to put out an exact death toll. It isn't clear when a full picture of what happened might emerge, if ever, given Beijing's iron-fisted grip on the minority region.
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Clash in China's Xinjiang kills 16: state media
Sixteen people were killed in a clash in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, state media reported on Monday.
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Ethnic minority 'biggest victims' of Tiananmen attack: China media
China's mainly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority will be the "biggest victims" of Monday's Tiananmen Square attack, which has been dubbed terrorism by the authorities, state media said on Thursday.
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Uighur group fears 'crackdown' after Tiananmen crash
An overseas Uighur rights group fears a "fierce state crackdown" by China on the largely Muslim ethnic minority after Monday's car crash at Tiananmen Square, it said on Wednesday.
