JIANGSU – A Bible school run by Vice-President of the Chinese House Church Alliance (CHCA) Pastor Shi Enhao was raided on July 16 at 11:30 a.m. (Beijing time) in Suqian city, Jiangsu province.
Pastor Shi and 11 students were taken to the Public Security Bureau (PSB) office and questioned.
They were all released around 5 p.m. the same day. The students were sent back to their hometowns and warned not to come back for Bible study. The school is part of a Bible education school run by CHCA.

The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) and Uyghur communities around the world are deeply concerned about the unprecedented bloodshed on July 5th 2009 in Urumqi, the capital city of East Turkistan (a.k.a. the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ‘XUAR)’, Peoples Republic of China ‘PRC’). The upheaval was sparked by the Communist regime’s heavy handed response to peaceful protests initiated by Uyghur college students and others to demonstrate against the government’s inaction following the mob killing of Uyghur workers in a toy factory in Guangdong Province in June.

Migliaia di uiguri oggi hanno marciato nella città kazaka di Almaty in segno di protesta contro il giro di vite nei confronti della loro etnia nella vicina regione cinese dello Xinjiang. Circa 5.000 uiguri si sono riuniti in un centro congressi dell’era sovietica nella maggiore città del Kazakistan per manifestare contro l’azione del governo cinese nella regione nordoccidentale musulmana.
“Libertà al Turkestan Orientale !”, ha urlato la folla dopo un minuto di silenzio, scuotendo i pugni e sventolando bandiere blu con la mezzaluna bianca simbolo del loro movimento indipendentista.

Il signor Zhu Hongbing era un impiegato del Settimo Impianto di Raccoglimento del petrolio dell’Ufficio di petrolio della città di Daqing. È stato condannato a sette anni nella prigione Hongweixing nella città di Daqing alla fine del 2001. Ha rifiutato di sottomettersi al lavaggio del cervello o di mettere l’uniforme dei prigionieri, e come conseguenza è stato torturato brutalmente.

Over one thousand workers at the Wuhan Boiler Company blocked a major road in Wuhan City, the capital of Hubei Province, on July 14 to protect their job security. One elderly worker was arrested.
On the same day, appellants from neighboring Tianmen City also went to the Hubei Provincial Government building and blocked the entrance.

"I was crossing Yamao Square when I saw at least one thousand workers from the Wuhan Boiler Company blocking the road to the factory,” one witness said on Monday.

Dhondup Wangchen who was arrested for his film “Leaving Fear Behind”, documenting the Tibetan people’s opposition to the Chinese government policies was denied the right to be represented by the Beijing based lawyer hired by his family.
Meanwhile, Tsuiltrim Gyatso and Thabkhay Gyatso, both monks of Labrang Tashi Khyil Monastery, have also been denied the right to be represented by lawyer chosen by their families. Tsuiltrim was earlier sentenced to life imprisonment and Thabkhay to 15 years in jail in May by Gannan Prefecture Intermediate People’s Court in Gansu province.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese environmental activist and his daughter have been jailed for leaking state secrets and endangering national security related to a uranium mine, a human rights group said.
Sun Xiaodi worked at a uranium mine in the remote northwestern province of Gansu, and has campaigned against nuclear contamination and for labor rights for years, Human Rights in China said in a statement.
But he has now been sentenced to two years of "re-education through labor." His daughter, Sun Dunbai, was given 1- years.

URUMQI, China — Security forces armed with automatic weapons and wooden clubs fanned out in China's restive Urumqi city Friday as worshippers descended on mosques for the main Muslim day of prayer.
Muslim Uighurs heading to prayers had to pass rows of security forces, an AFP reporter witnessed, as Chinese authorities sought to prevent any repeat of the ethnic bloodshed that has blighted the city in recent weeks.

La signora Su Zhifeng, 49 anni, viveva nel Qingchun, Chengxiang del comune di Suining, provincia di Jiangsu. Poiché ha distribuito i volantini che denunciano la persecuzione e ha spiegato alla gente i fatti sul Falun Gong all’inizio della persecuzione, il capo Xun Jun della divisione di sicurezza interna l’ha messa nel mirino di arresto, dicendo di “arrestarla a qualunque costo”. Per evitare l’arresto, ha dovuto lasciare casa e viveva dei lavori provvisori. Xu ha arrestato e detenuto la madre della signora Su, che aveva più di 60 anni.

A raid on a Chinese house church two days before a riot broke out in Uyghur Autonomous Region in Western China has led to the arrest of eight Christians, meanwhile two Chinese American missionaries are reportedly missing.

China has urged its citizens in Algeria to take extra care, after reports that a militant group might take revenge for the recent deaths of Muslim Uighurs. On Tuesday a UK-based security firm reported that an al-Qaeda-linked group had threatened to target Chinese workers in north Africa. The Chinese foreign minister recently appealed for understanding within the Muslim world in the wake of the unrest. On Tuesday the London-based risk firm Stirling Assynt reported that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb had threatened to target Chinese workers in north Africa.

Dharamsala, July 15 – Two Tibetan youths returning to Tibet from exile have been brutally tortured by Chinese police after their arrest at the border near Nepal in April this year, reported Chinese language website boxun.com. The two had attended school in India run by the exile Tibetan government.

Per rappresaglia contro i contadini della Contea di Sershul che avevano aderito allo sciopero ad oltranza il Governo Cinese ha emesso ,in data 11 Luglio, una ordinanza che impone a tutti i tibetani residenti nella zona di demolire le proprie abitazioni.
Con il pretesto di rendere “più salubri” le abitazioni rurali gli occupanti intendono in realtà costringere i contadini ad abbandonare la contea.
Molti tibetani avevavo già ristrutturato le case di recente sostenendo spese notevoli ed oggi non sarebbero più in grado di pagarne una nuova.

Algeria
Algerian-based offshoot Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has threatened to target Chinese interests, according to international consultancy Stirling Assynt.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese work in the Middle East and North Africa, including 50,000 in Algeria, estimated the group, which has offices in London and Hong Kong providing risk advice to corporate and official clients.
It marks the first time Osama bin Laden's network has set its sights on the Asian power, which has sought warm relations with the Islamic world.

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