March 2010 Archives

A concerted new attack has been made on Yahoo email accounts of journalists and activists whose work relates to China.
The attack has focused on Uighur activists in particular and compromised accounts include those of the World Uyghur Congress, an exile group that China accuses of inciting separatism in the frontier region of Xinjiang which Uighurs call East Turkestan.

"I suspect a lot of information in my Yahoo account was downloaded," the group's spokesman, Dilxat Raxit said. An email account, he set up in Sweden, has been blocked for a month.