161. Mining of rare earths is a threat to Mongolian nomads in China, as a memorandum documents   …In China, the nomadic people of Inner Mongolia are acutely threatened by land grabbing and the consequences of mining. It is understandable that the German economy welcomes the recent approval of rare earths exports…  

162. Refugee crisis escalates: Thailand should allow Chinese Uyghurs to emigrate to Turkey   …The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) urges the government of Thailand to allow 367 Uyghur refugees from China to emigrate to Turkey. Refugees are not commodities. There must be an end to the inhuman haggling between…  

163. STP-Vigil: Freedom for imprisoned professor in China   … assembly hall of the University of Goettingen in occasion of the 2nd economics conference about China. We wanted to draw attention to the fate of the imprisoned chinese professor Guo Quan.  

165. Tensions in Northwest China escalate   …g the last ten days, at least 25 people died in clashes between Uyghurs and the police forces in Northwestern China, as reported by the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP). This is a clear indication for another rise…  

166. China tightens Internet censorship   …The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) accuses China's government of contributing to a systematic criminalization of ethnic and religious minorities, based on the new Internet policy that will come into effect on…  

167. 36 persecuted Christians deported to Vietnam – Cambodia violates UN Refugee Convention   The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) strongly condemns the deportation of 36 Christians, who belong to a persecuted indigenous population group, from Cambodia to Vietnam. "The forced relocation  

168. "Xi Jinping's Great Digital Wall": A new report documents Chinese violations of Internet freedom   …On occasion of the opening of the computer fair CeBIT, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has accused China, the official partner country, of violating Internet freedom – both at home as well as on a global scale.…  

169. Commitment to human rights instead of kowtowing: Internet industry should advocate for more Internet freedom in China   … fair in Hanover – and appealed to the Internet industry to advocate for more Internet freedom in China. Instead of kowtowing to China's state and party leaders, Internet companies such as Facebook and…  

170. STP demonstrations at CeBIT 2015 - Internet freedom in China!   China was the partner country of this year's CeBIT computer fair in Hanover/Germany. We took this opportunity to draw attention to the massive violation of internet freedom in China, particularly the persecution of…