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 Strike Hard Campaigns are used throughout China as a means for the government to keep its population under control. The campaigns are generally typified by a speeding up of judicial processes, resulting in few if any significant safeguards against wrongful convictions as police attempt to fulfil "quotas" of arrests. However, while Chinese authorities wage periodic campaigns in other parts of China, the latest “strike hard” campaign in East Turkistan has been going on for the last six years.
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China's Olympics and the '3 evils'
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China's efforts to encash the forthcoming Olympics games at Beijing appear to have been facing severe hurdles even before the Games begin on August 8. However, major infrastructural efforts helped showcase several cities and venues.
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China parliament delegates call for Xinjiang crackdown: report
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Delegates to China's parliament have vowed to step up a crackdown on ethnic unrest, separatism and religious extremism in the western region of Xinjiang, state press said Saturday.
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China, Kazakhstan to hold joint drill against terrorism
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China and Kazakhstan, both member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), will hold an anti-terrorism exercise from Aug. 24 to 26, China's Ministry of Public Security announced on Monday.
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Chinese Police Ransack Activist's Offices
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Chinese police ransacked the headquarters and arrested four employees of a company owned by Rebiya Kadeer, a Muslim businesswoman who was released from prison two months ago and is now in the US, her daughter said.
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China Is Said to Retaliate Against an Exile
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Chinese police officers raided the offices and detained several employees of a trading company run by a prominent Uighur Muslim dissident who was allowed to leave China for the United States earlier this year, an American human rights group said Saturday.
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