“Justice, Justice”: The July 2009 Protests in Xinjiang, China

“Justice, Justice”: The July 2009 Protests in Xinjiang, China

On July 5, 2009, thousands of Chinese of Uighur ethnicity demonstrated in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In the aftermath of the Urumqi protests, the authorities detained more than 1,400 people. In this report from 2010, Amnesty International documents...