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Riot police battle protesters as China’s Uighur crisis escalates

July 7, 2009

Times Online/UK, July 7, 2009

Uigher woman confronts police in Xinjiang

(AP) A Uigher woman confronts armed police in Urumqi

Jane Macartney, Urumqi

The challenge China faces as it attempts to regain control of its western-most Muslim region was underlined this morning when hundreds of angry Uighurs clashed yet again with riot police.

Following news that 1,434 people had been arrested for Sunday’s riots, some 300 Muslim ethnic Uighurs confronted heavily-armed riot police in the city of Urumqi demanding the release of family members they said had been arbitrarily arrested in the crackdown following the weekend bloodshed, which left 156 dead and more than 800 wounded.

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