Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism
China's surveillance state
By  • 19 September 2019
China has a long history of conducting surveillance on its population. Yet technology is now allowing the government to keep tabs on its people in ways that are perhaps unparalleled in human history. In particular,…
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Uighurs Under Threat as China Expands Repression
By  • 17 October 2018
The Id Kah mosque in the western Chinese city of Kashgar had long held thousands of worshipers every Friday. Yet as a government crackdown on China’s Muslim Uighur minority intensified earlier this year, news agencies…
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China's Uighurs face cultural assault
By  • 11 October 2018
Over the past year, China has vastly increased repression of the country’s Uighur minority. A Turkic group that practices Islam, the Uighurs have long faced restrictions from Beijing – but over the past year as many…
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Students of jailed Uighur blogger may face trial in China
By  • 18 November 2014
Several students of a prominent ethnic Uighur blogger and economist may soon go on trial in China following the life sentence given to their former teacher. Those facing trial are students at Beijing's Minzu University…
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Project Exile: Uighur reporter fears return to China
By  • 10 November 2014
"I love being a journalist because we are targeting a specific area and providing a voice for the voiceless people." Mamtjan Juma was once a Western art teacher in China's remote western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous…
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