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A Muslim woman using her mobile phone on July 16, 2009 in Urumqi in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, during a time of heavy military, paramilitary, and riot police presence following ethnic violence in the city.
Welcome to Uighur Web Now Watch What You Say
April 23, 2014
China’s Internet is vast, with millions of sites and more than 618 million users. But nested within that universe is a tiny virtual community comprising just a few thousand websites where China’s Uighur, the country’s fifth-largest ethnic minority with a population of approximately 11 million, gather online to communicate in their own language and script.