Xinjiang Violence

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  China Expels French Reporter Who Questioned Terrorism

  China said today that it will not renew press credentials for a French journalist, effectively expelling her following a harsh media campaign against her for questioning the official line equating ethnic violence in China's western Muslim region with global terrorism.

• Six 'Mobsters' Killed by Police in China's Xinjiang: Report

  Chinese police have killed six "mobsters" in the troubled western region of Xinjiang, state news agency Xinhua said on Monday, the latest violence to rock the area in recent years.

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  8 Sentenced To Die For Attacks In China's Xinjiang: CCTV

  A Chinese court condemned eight people to death today for two deadly attacks in Xinjiang, as Beijing cracks down hard on violence in the homeland of the mostly Muslim Uighur minority.

• 12 Condemned to Death for Attack in China's Xinjiang: Media

  A Chinese court on Monday condemned 12 people to death and gave another 15 suspended death sentences in connection with a July attack in violence-racked Xinjiang, the regional government's Tianshan portal said.

• Policewoman Killed in China's Xinjiang

  Two "thugs" stabbed to death a policewoman in the Chinese region of Xinjiang where the government says Islamists are using violence to push for a separate state, media reported on Monday.

• Chinese City Bans Big Beards, Burqa-Wearers from Buses: Report

  Amid an upsurge in separatist violence, a city in China's restive Xinjiang region has banned those in Islamic headscarves, burqas and with long beards from public transport.

• 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.

• Imam of China's Biggest Mosque Killed in Xinjiang

  The head of a China's largest mosque was murdered after conducting morning prayers, the local government in the far western region of Xinjiang said, amid intensifying violence in the turbulent region.

• Chinese Minority Scholar Indicted for Separatism

  An outspoken Chinese minority scholar was indicted on separatism charges amid a renewed flare-up of bloody anti-government violence in the country's far west.

• More Violence in China's Xinjiang After Deadly Attack

  Western tourists saw a body lying in a pool of blood in a major city in China's violence-prone Xinjiang province on Wednesday, as security forces flooded in after the government said dozens of knife-wielding attackers were shot dead elsewhere in the region earlier in the week.

• China Says May Have Citizens Fighting in Iraq

  Muslim extremists from China's far western region of Xinjiang have gone to the Middle East for training and some may have crossed into Iraq to participate in the upsurge of violence there, China's special envoy for the Middle East said on Monday.

• China Detains 380 in Month-Long Xinjiang Terror Sweep

  Authorities in China's far-flung western region of Xinjiang have detained 380 people and busted 32 terror cells in a month-long crackdown on violence, state media said on Monday, following an upsurge in attacks blamed on Islamist militants.

• China Court to Try Eight for Tiananmen Bomb Attack

  China will try eight people linked to a car-bomb attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square last year, prosecutors said, as the government escalates a crackdown on violence emanating from its restive Xinjiang region.

• Military Drill Staged as China Market Attack Toll Rises

  China staged a huge show of force in the Muslim Uighur homeland of Xinjiang on Friday and vowed a one-year campaign against "terrorist violence" as the death toll from a bloody market attack rose to 39.

• China Market Attack the Latest in Wave of Violence

  A timeline of recent violent incidents linked to tensions in China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang between its native Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group and China's majority Han