{"id":1107,"date":"2014-08-28T19:54:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2014\/08\/28\/uygurs-seek-independent-probe-xinjiang-riots\/"},"modified":"2014-08-28T19:54:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T19:54:34","slug":"uygurs-seek-independent-probe-xinjiang-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/uygurs-seek-independent-probe-xinjiang-riots\/","title":{"rendered":"Uygurs seek independent probe into Xinjiang riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An organization of ethnic Uygurs living abroad is demanding an independent international investigation into last month&#8217;s riots in China&#8217;s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n<div>Aug. 28, 2014 &#8211; Updated 02:58 UTC-4<\/div>\n<p>An organization of ethnic Uygurs living abroad is demanding an independent international investigation into last month&#8217;s riots in China&#8217;s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n<p>Rioters attacked government and police facilities in Yarkand County, Kashgar Prefecture, on July 28th.<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese government news website reported that 37 people were killed in the attacks, which it blamed on terrorists linked to the pro-independence East Turkestan Islamic Movement.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the World Uyghur Congress, Rebiya Kadeer, released a statement in Washington on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>She said that many people were reportedly killed when Chinese authorities cracked down on Uygurs after the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>But she said it&#8217;s impossible to know the truth because Chinese authorities have cut off Internet access and imposed tight restrictions on the media.<\/p>\n<p>Kadeer also said that Chinese authorities are using drones to collect information on terrorism suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organization of ethnic Uygurs living abroad is demanding an independent international investigation into last month&#8217;s riots in China&#8217;s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}