Ilham Tohti

China: Forty 'rioters' killed in Xinjiang after a series of explosions

Chinese state media had previously only stated that two people had been killed in the incident. The ruling Communist Party tightly restricts access to the restive region, and information is difficult to independently verify.

Uighur scholar convicted for promoting seperatism: Chinese media

China's vice minister of state ethnic affairs, Luo Liming, said that the court had strictly followed Chinese law in handing down the life sentence.

China imposes life sentence on Uighur scholar

He is known as a moderate voice with ties to both the country's Han Chinese establishment and the Muslim Uighur ethnic group, which has long complained of harsh treatment by the government in the far western Xinjiang region.