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		The Chinese government charged Rebiya Kadeer in September 1999 with “providing secret information to foreigners” even though the local newspapers she was carrying at the time of her arrest were all publicly available, as were the newspapers she had sent to her husband in the United States.
		Rebiya Kadeer’s activism in the strategically important, oil-rich autonomous region of Xinjiang and her husband’s outspoken criticism of Chinese rule in the mostly Muslim region began to draw government reprisals in the late 1990s.
		Rebiya Kadeer, 53 at the time of her arrest in 1999, is the mother of 11 children, some of whom live in the United States.
	www.amnestyusa.org /special-focus-cases/special-focus-cases/page.do?id=1101237&n1=3&n2=34&n3=53 (823 words)

	New Statesman - It could have been me
		From 1997, Rebiya Kadeer suffered police harassment and travel restrictions due both to her husband's activism outside China as well as her own human-rights work on behalf of the Uighur people, such as forming the "Thousand Mothers' Movement" to encourage Uighur women to run their own businesses.
		One of Rebiya's daughters was forced to witness her brothers Ablikim and Alim being beaten.
		Rebiya Kadeer's success in business had previously been celebrated by the authorities: she was appointed China's official representative to a United Nations women's conference in Beijing in 1995.
	www.newstatesman.com /human-rights/2007/01/rebiya-kadeer-roddick-china (662 words)

	Welcome to A History of Female Apartheid
		Rebiya Kadeer is a well-known businesswoman and mother of 10 from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China.
		Rebiya Kadeer was thus made a "hostage" and prevented from joining her husband and some of her children abroad.
		This seems to indicate both that there is insufficient evidence against Rebiya Kadeer to convict her of the charge and that her case is considered too important to be decided upon by the regional authorities.
	homepage.eircom.net /~kittyhawk/suffrage/Xheros_present_rebiya.htm (730 words)

	Sobaka :: Dossier: Rebiya Kadeer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Lauded in official newspapers for her efforts to spread the gospel of the communist/capitalist frankenstein of a system of the 1990s, Kadeer was considered a benign enough activist to be selected by China as a delegate to the 1995 UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, where she stood alongside Hilary Clinton, among others.
		Rebiya began her life as a laundress, becoming a self-made millionaire during China's economic boom.
		Sporadic reports of harsh beatings and mistreatment to Rebiya and her son (who was released from a labour camp in February 2001) surface from time to time, though no one can testify as to their reliability because no one has been allowed to see her since her arrest.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/dossier/kadeer.html (467 words)

	Rebiya Kadeer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On 17 March, Kadeer flew to the U.S. and joined her family in Washington D.C. In response to Kadeer's release, the United States agreed to drop a resolution against China in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, causing human rights organizations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to moderate their praise somewhat.
		Kadeer's successes as a businesswoman earned her the local nickname "the millionairess" and also a position at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
		Annelie Enochson stated in her nomination, Rebiya Kadeer champions the rights of western China's Uighur ethnic group and is one of China's most prominent advocates of women's rights...[she] has also used her resources as founder and director of a large trading company in northwestern China to provide fellow Uighurs with training and employment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rebiya_Kadeer (570 words)

	China: Rebiya Kadeer release welcome, but tactically timed - news.amnesty - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent Uighur businesswoman from the northwest region of Xinjiang, should never have been in prison in the first place.
		Rebiya Kadeer's success in business was recognised and celebrated by the Chinese authorities, earning her a position as an official representative to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
		Rebiya Kadeer's release comes around a year and a half before she was due to complete her sentence.
	news.amnesty.org /index/ENGASA170102005 (605 words)

	Halpin and Hogrefe memo
		Kadeer during this meeting that, due to the sensitivity of the situation, there was no intention to attempt to make direct contact with her remaining children in Urumqi during the visit there.
		Kadeer herself was detained by local authorities in August 1999 as she was entering a hotel to meet with a member of the staff of the Congressional Research Service (CRS).
		Kadeer was warned by Chinese authorities at the time of her release from incarceration and exile to the United States in March 2005 not to become an advocate for Uyghur rights in the United States or her family in China would suffer the consequences.
	www.icasinc.org /2006/2006l/2006ld2h.html (2251 words)

	Human Rights in China (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kadeer did not respond to questions her children posed about her health or whether she had been taken to the hospital, but they later said she looked strong and energetic.
		Kadeer told her children that she was proud to be a political prisoner and said, Â“Never forget that IÂ’ll never commit suicide.Â” They were allowed to leave food, blankets and clothing, but not medicine.
		KadeerÂ’s son Ablikim Abdurehim and secretary Kahriman Abdukirim were also detained on August 11, 1999, in connection with her case, and have both been sentenced to Reeducation Through Labor terms.
	www.hrichina.org /public/contents/article?revision_id=2998&item_id=2997 (706 words)

	University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
		Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, was arrested in front of the Yingdu Hotel in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Province, where she had gone to meet with a group of visiting staff members of the United States Congressional Research Service.
		Kadeer speaks no English, this paper was a translation of the message about her situation that she was supposed to give to the group she was about to meet.
		Rebiya Kadeer was detained and subsequently convicted solely on the grounds that she had tried to tell others of the insecure situation in which she found herself, whereas in doing so she was merely exercising her right to freedom of expression.
	hei.unige.ch /humanrts/wgad/30-2000.html (993 words)

	Chinese Uyghur Human Rights Activist Nominated for the Peace Nobel Prize
		Kadeer, a one-time laundress, was little known outside China before her exile but a win would raise the profile of militant Uighurs' hitherto faceless movement to make the restive region of Xinjiang an independent state called East Turkestan.
		Kadeer, president of the Uighur American Association, is tipped to be elected president of the World Uighur Congress in October, a source close to her said.
		Rebiya Kadeer has relentlessly worked to draw attention to the suffering of the Uyghur population in China’s north-western province of Xinjiang, tirelessly pressuring both the international community and the Chinese authorities to address the human rights violations common to the region.
	ymyt.com /ru/2/331_1.shtml (2262 words)

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		Kadeer's sons in detention, Ablikim Abdureyim, was seen by sources close to UHRP being carried out of Tianshan District Detention Center on a stretcher on November 26, apparently in need of medical attention.
		Kadeer learned from sources in Urumchi that the Chinese authorities were willing to be lenient with her sons if she did not run for the presidency of the WUC.
		Kadeer's eldest son, with alleged tax evasion, Ablikim with alleged conspiracy to overthrow the government, and Alim with alleged tax evasion and attempting to split the state.
	www.rafto.no /DesktopModules/ViewAnnouncement.aspx?ItemID=249&Mid=42 (1759 words)

	Blogger News Network » China: As It Was, It Is
		Kadeer took her new position in the Parliament very seriously and made the mistake of taking China’s public face at ‘face value.’ She started to work to allow the Uyghur people to regain the autonomy they had lost to China in 1949.
		Kadeer’s activism went too far for the Chinese government; they put her in prison in August of 1999 for the “crime” of sending newspaper clippings to her husband, an expatriate and also active in the Uyghur separatist movement, who was living in the United States.
		Rebiya Kadeer stayed in prison until March of 2005 when she was released to the United States government on the condition that she would stop her activism.
	www.bloggernews.net /1282 (534 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Profile: Rebiya Kadeer
		Rebiya Kadeer was a successful businesswoman and philanthropist in China's restive Xinjiang until her arrest in 1999 for allegedly endangering national security.
		Mrs Kadeer, twice-married and the mother of at least 11 children, grew up in poverty but at the time of her release was known locally as "the millionairess".
		Mrs Kadeer's passport was seized, she was harassed by police and, in 1998, barred from reappointment to the CPPCC.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4357607.stm (494 words)

	Special Broadcasting Service :: Dateline - presented by George Negus
		Rebiya Kadeer is being feted for some years as the mother of the Uyghur people, a little-known Muslim minority living in the far north-west of China.
		Now 61, Rebiya Kadeer has made it her life's work to alert the world to the suffering of her people, the Uyghurs, and that's got Beijing well and truly offside and landed her with a 6-year jail term.
		REBIYA KADEER, (Translation): The Chinese government was very pleased with 9/11 and used it to justify further crackdowns on the Uyghurs, naming every Uyghur unhappy with the regime as a terrorist.
	news.sbs.com.au /dateline/interview_with_rebiya_kadeer_542091 (1569 words)

	Al Jazeera English - News - China Jails Uighur Activist's Son
		Rebiya Kadeer, a member of the Uighur Muslim community from China's north-western province of Xinjiang, was speaking after the conviction of two of her sons for tax evasion.
		In 1999 Kadeer was jailed for eight years after she was convicted of providing state secrets to foreigners.
		In a statement, Kadeer condemned the conviction of her sons saying they were "completely innocent" and the case was clearly connected to her election as president of the WUC.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/F5D48377-8A26-4356-9539-EFB55037F056.htm (518 words)

	Rebiya Kadeer, Human Rights in China, Amnesty International Australia
		Rebiya Kadeer was arrested by the Chinese authorities in 1999, while on her way to a meeting with a US congressional delegation investigating the situation in Xinjiang.
		Before she was freed, Rebiya Kadeer says she was warned if she became involved with the Uighur community or spoke publicity about "sensitive issues" her businesses and children would suffer.
		Rebiya Kadeer, who has 11 children, set up free classes, in her department store, to educate poor Uighur children and started a group called the Thousand Mothers Movement, to empower Uighur women to start businesses.
	action.amnesty.org.au /china/comments/rebiya_kadeer (886 words)

	Gulja Vigil - Rebiya Kadeer
		Rebiya Kadeer being welcomed by her family in the USA after her release from prison in China.
		Rebiya Kadeer's courageous stance against the Chinese authorities bullying and harassment of the Uyghur people has earnt her enormous respect amongst them and now more widely.
		In response to Rebiya Kadeer's visit to the UK and meeting with parlimentarians in October 2007 an Early Day Motion has been tabled calling on the Chinese government to improve the human rights situation for Uighurs and particulary Rebiya Kadeer's children.
	www.guljavigil.org /rebiyakadeer.htm (391 words)

	Amnesty International Canada \|\| Protecting Individuals at Risk
		Rebiya Kadeer is a prominent Uighur businesswoman from the northwest region of Xinjiang in China.
		However, Rebiya Kadeer was detained, tried and imprisoned in 2000 for “leaking state secrets” as she had sent newspaper articles from publicly available regional newspapers to her husband in the USA.
		During Rebiya Kadeer’s imprisonment, Amnesty International members campaigned constantly for her release, as she was considered a prisoner of conscience.
	www.amnesty.ca /indiv_at_risk/cases/rebiyakadeer.php (540 words)

	Beijing harasses dissidents - even in America
		Kadeer passed that on to Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., who enlisted the FBI, which determined that three of the four men in the rented car were Chinese agents.
		Kadeer "promised not to take part in any activities endangering the security of the People's Republic of China," the dispatch complained, but "immediately upon arriving overseas she shed her pretense" and became active with pro-democracy forces.
		Kadeer, in other words, is a threat because she is an effective, engaging spokeswoman for her cause.
	infowars.com /articles/ps/china_harasses_dissidents_even_in_usa.htm (691 words)

	China: Harassment and detention of Rebiya Kadeer's family and associates
		Prior to her release Rebiya, mother of eleven, says she was warned that if she engaged with Uighurs or spoke publicly about "sensitive issues" after her release her "businesses and children [five of whom remain in the XUAR] will be finished".
		Last week, two of Rebiya Kadeer's relatives were reportedly briefly detained and asked to hand in their passports.
		Rebiya Kadeer was released on medical parole after having spent close to six years in prison in the XUAR on charges of "providing state secrets outside the country".
	www.amnestyusa.org /document.php?lang=e&id=ENGASA170302005 (741 words)

	Xinjiang Party head says Kadeer 'a separatist'
		A senior Party official in Xinjiang has denounced Rebiya Kadeer, now living the United States, as a separatist, saying she has no qualifications to be nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
		Rebiya Kadeer is pictured in her home in Fairfax, Virginia in this October 13, 2006 photo.
		Rebiya Kadeer was born in 1951 in Xinjiang.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2007-01/08/content_776759.htm (453 words)

	Amnesty International Australia - China: Rebiya Kadeer release welcome, but tactically timed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent Uighur businesswoman from the northwest region of Xinjiang, should never have been in prison in the first place.
		Rebiya Kadeer's success in business was recognised and celebrated by the Chinese authorities, earning her a position as an official representative to the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995.
		Rebiya Kadeer's release comes around a year and a half before she was due to complete her sentence.
	www.amnesty.org.au /news_features/news/ap/china_rebiya_kadeer_release_welcome,_but_tactically_timed?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=large&SQ_ACTION=set_design_name (672 words)

	[Islam-Online- Top News]
		Kadeer was sentenced to eight years in prison in March for "illegally passing intelligence outside of China" and China's legal authorities have so far refused to rule on her appeal.
		Kadeer's husband Sidik Rouzi, a former Chinese studies professor at Xinjiang University, was a political prisoner for many years before he went to the US.
		US officials have repeatedly raised Kadeer's case in meetings with Chinese officials since she was arrested in August of last year, just before she was due to meet US congressional staffers to complain about political prisoners in the far west Chinese region.
	www.islamonline.net /iol-english/dowalia/news-2000-July-27/topnews3.asp (503 words)

	AIUK : Actions : China: Family of prominent Uighur rights activist, Rebiya Kadeer, targeted
		Rebiya Kadeer's daughter Rushangul Abdiriyim has been released from house arrest, imposed in June this year after she witnessed her brothers Ablikim and Alim Abdiriyim being beaten.
		Rebiya Kadeer was first detained as a prisoner of conscience in 1999.
		Rebiya Kadeer claims that while she was still in custody she was warned that if she engaged with members of the Uighur ethnic community or spoke publicly about "sensitive issues" after her release, her "businesses and children will be finished".
	www.amnesty.org.uk /actions_details.asp?ActionID=244 (748 words)

	The Opposite End of China \|\| Xinjiang & Northwest China Blog (中国的另一端 \|\| 新疆 & ...
		Kadeer's son, Alim, appears to have suffered injuries while being taken into custody due to his "rude and unreasonable attitude".
		Kadeer's sons, Ablikim, (identified in the Chinese transliteration as Ahbulikemu), and Alim (Alimu), and her daughter, Rushangul (Ruxianguli) were also accused of owing banks 28.9 million yuan, the report said.
		Kadeer was released into exile to the United States in March last year after spending six years in a Xinjiang prison for leaking "state secrets" to a US congressional delegation visiting the region in the 1990s.
	china.notspecial.org /archives/2006/06/kadeers_kids_in.html (874 words)

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