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Featured Articles and Highlights
The Uyghur Human Rights Project chooses particular articles to be highlighted as "featured."  They are listed below.


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Circle of steel around the silk road
Published Yesterday | Featured Articles and Highlights
He was arrested as he arrived at the school gate, in full view of fellow students and his teachers. Taken away by police, the Uygur teenager remains in jail three months later.
Olympic Games, or Mobilization for War?
Published Yesterday | Featured Articles and Highlights
On May 5, Tian Yixiang, the director of the military bureau's security command center for the Beijing Olympic Games, told a reporter from the military channel of Xinhua News Net that the main threat to security of the Olympic Games are "domestic forces against China, including the East Turkistan Islamic Movement,
Pakistani Article Says Europe, US Supporting Uprising in China's Xinjiang
Published 05/8/2008 | Featured Articles and Highlights
Text of commentary by Retired Colonel Ghulam Sarwar: "Warning of Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan With Regard to Xinjiang" published by Pakistani newspaper Ausaf on 5 May
China, Tibet, and the Strategic Power of Water: Pollution and Global Warming Threaten Asia's Most Important Freshwater Source
Published 05/8/2008 | Featured Articles and Highlights
Almost two years after a 710-mile (1,100 kilometer)railroad across the world's highest plateau opened from central China to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa,
China's Fear of Summer
Published 05/8/2008 | Featured Articles and Highlights
The Hash House Harriers is a social group of runners that meets in cities all over the world to go for a jog followed by a few beers. It calls itself "a drinking club with a running problem."


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