Sources: NBC News The Australian
Three people are sentenced to death and one person given a life sentence for the 2014 Kunming attack in China's Xinjiang region. 2014-09-12
Authorities in China's Xinjiang region sentence nine people for up to 14 years for terrorism offences. 2014-06-26
The People's Republic of China sentences four people to death in the Xinjiang region following threats to crack down on terrorism in the far-western region. 2011-09-15
Meng Jianzhu, the Minister for Public Security in the People's Republic of China, orders a clampdown in Xinjiang following recent unrest. 2011-08-5
China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan conduct an anti-terror drill in the restive Xinjiang region of western China. 2011-05-7
Four men from Xinjiang in western China are to be executed following convictions for terrorism in the region last year. 2011-02-23
Seven people are killed and fourteen injured in a bomb attack in China's Xinjiang province. Although the region has recently been embroiled in violence including Muslim separatists and majority Han Chinese, the attack is being investigated as a criminal case. 2010-08-19
China sentences an Uyghur journalist who spoke to foreign media after riots in Xinjiang last year to 15 years imprisonment. 2010-07-23
Security is boosted in Xinjiang in western China on the anniversary of the July 2009 Ürümqi riots. 2010-07-5
China commences surveillance of text messages, with customers from the country's two largest operators being blocked for lewd messages. Meanwhile, text messaging returns to Xinjiang, after riots last July. 2010-01-18