Uyghur Journalist Gets 15 Years...But For What? – China News

www.farwestchina.com — On July 23rd, 2010, a Uyghur journalist was sentenced to 15 years in prison. News outlets have already been reporting on this for a few days (& posted to HHR), but none of them have explored exactly what this man was accused of doing. Who is Gheyret Niyaz?

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Uyghur Journalist Gets 15 Years...But For What?

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FarWestChina 1 year 27 weeks ago

@ndmagxian - I thought about putting up a crazy picture like yours from the earlier submission, but I'm a fairly boring guy so I just went with a picture of the actual Uyghur :)

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