China Angered at Rights Award for Exiled 'Terrorist'

China expressed anger on Friday about an exiled leader from the violence-prone far western Chinese region of Xinjiang receiving a rights award in the United States, saying he was a wanted criminal. Dolkun Isa, executive chairman of the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress, the leading ethnic Uighur group that advocates democracy and human rights in Xinjiang, received an award from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington on Wednesday. China put Isa, a former student...

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