Read more Chinese Muslims stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/35115/chinese-muslims.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 4:51:37 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73639/china-executes-9-over-uighur-riots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNine people convicted of murder and arson during July riots in China’s Xinjiang province were executed today. Chinese news services did not identify the executed, but previous statements suggest that they are Uighurs. The riots in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region, left 197 people dead as Uighurs clashed...http://www.newser.com/story/73639/china-executes-9-over-uighur-riots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 13:59:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/63635/140-dead-in-china-muslim-riots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt least 140 people have been killed and 800 injured in clashes between rioters and police in China’s restive oil-rich Xinjiang region, reports the BBC. The clashes are the deadliest outbreak of violence in China in several years. The violence began after more than 1000 protesters—primarily Uighur Muslims—marched...http://www.newser.com/story/63635/140-dead-in-china-muslim-riots.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 06 Jul 2009 2:27:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62522/five-gitmo-uighurs-to-palau-thanks-but-no-thanks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPalau’s president Johnson Toribiong today said five of the 13 Uighurs held at Guantanamo Bay and set to be resettled in his country don't want to go, AFP reports. “A handful may not come,” he said. A recent delegation from the country to Gitmo met with just eight of the...http://www.newser.com/story/62522/five-gitmo-uighurs-to-palau-thanks-but-no-thanks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 22 Jun 2009 14:01:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61824/freed-gitmo-inmates-wed-never-heard-of-al-qaeda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Chinese Muslims freed from Guantanamo last week had never heard of al-Qaeda before arriving in Cuba, one of them tells the Royal Gazette of Bermuda. "From what we have heard about them, they are an extremely radical group, with totally different ideals from ours," said Salahidin Abdulahad, who arrived...http://www.newser.com/story/61824/freed-gitmo-inmates-wed-never-heard-of-al-qaeda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 14 Jun 2009 4:46:54 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61601/4-chinese-gitmo-detainees-freed-to-bermuda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFour Chinese Muslims inmates from Guantanamo have been released in Bermuda in the first successful US resettlement of Uighurs since 2006, the AP reports. The disposition of 13 others is unclear, according to the Miami Herald, but Palau has offered to accept them, a move China opposes. Beijing has called...http://www.newser.com/story/61601/4-chinese-gitmo-detainees-freed-to-bermuda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 11 Jun 2009 8:45:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61498/palau-to-take-gitmos-chinese-detainees.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPalau agreed to accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay, indicating a resolution to one of the thorniest issues facing the Obama administration's decision to close the prison camp. The announcement, which would clear the last of the Uighurs from the camp, was a...http://www.newser.com/story/61498/palau-to-take-gitmos-chinese-detainees.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Jun 2009 8:41:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61096/chinese-muslims-at-gitmo-press-supreme-court-to-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 17 Uighurs being held at Guantanamo issued a challenge to the Supreme Court today in petitioning for their release, the Miami Herald reports. "The historic role of the Judicial Branch is to demand the release of prisoners precisely when the political branches find release inconvenient," their petition reads. A...http://www.newser.com/story/61096/chinese-muslims-at-gitmo-press-supreme-court-to-act.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 05 Jun 2009 14:56:22 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51176/court-blocks-release-of-17-gitmo-prisoners-into-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe fate of 17 Chinese Muslims imprisoned at Guantanamo since 2002 remains in flux after the DC Circuit Court of Appeals blocked their release to the US today. That reverses a lower court ruling that said the prisoners—members of the Uighur ethnic group who are no longer considered enemy...http://www.newser.com/story/51176/court-blocks-release-of-17-gitmo-prisoners-into-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Feb 2009 15:07:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/39499/appeals-court-halts-release-of-17-at-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn appeals court has blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees at Guantanamo Bay after the Bush administration filed an emergency motion. A lower court had ruled that the men, members of the Uighur minority who have been imprisoned for 7 years, must be released. That decision also said...http://www.newser.com/story/39499/appeals-court-halts-release-of-17-at-gitmo.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 09 Oct 2008 7:10:02 CDT