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www.nytimes.com — A Uighur journalist who worked for an official Chinese radio service was sentenced to life imprisonment for transmitting information about the 2009 ethnic riots in western China -- one of dozens jailed since the violence, an overseas Uighur advocacy group said.

blogs.aljazeera.net — Melissa Chan is my new favorite reporter. This blog post details her trip to cover the story of a man defending his farm with a homemade cannon and explains the behind-the-scenes story of her efforts to cover the story.

afp.google.com — BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese police roughed up a British TV crew and stopped them covering a pro-Tibet protest, witnesses said, in the latest case of interference with media freedom at the Beijing Olympic Games.