Muslim women protest in restive west China (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 07/10/2009 - 7:20pm

Uighur protesters march through the street in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Friday, July 10, 2009.<br /><br />A group of 10 police in bulletproof vests and helmets and armed with batons and stun guns blocked Uighur protesters' march within minutes, followed shortly by several dozen more police who surrounded the group and forced them to squat on the sidewalk when the group of about 40 Uighur men and women began to march.<br /><br />(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)AP - The petite Muslim woman with the sky blue head scarf began by complaining that the public washrooms were closed at a crowded mosque on Friday — the most important day of the week for Islamic worship.

When a group gathered around her on the sidewalk, Madina Ahtam then railed against communist rule in China's far western region of Xinjiang, rocked by ethnic rioting that has killed at least 184 people this week.



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