uighur
- n a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
- n the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
- n the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
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- Lawmakers, activists urge Obama to press Xi on China prisoners
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers and 30 human rights groups on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to use a weekend summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping to press for the freedom of 16 prominent political and religious prisoners. The "China 16" include imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng and political prisoners from the Tibetan and Uighur ethnic ...
June 6, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
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- Rebiya Kadeer in AFP
We hope the White House will issue a stronger statement urging the Chinese government to show restraint, and also to tell the truth of the nature of the events and what happened, and to tell the Chinese government to redress Uighur grievances,...