July 9, 2009--Rebiya Kadeer, the well-known Uyghur dissident now living in exile in the US who is believed to be behind the Xinjiang riots on July 5, used an old news photo of a different incident in China when talking about the Xinjiang riots to clarify that she and her organization were not responsible for the incident in Xinjiang.

In a video clip on Youtube, Kadeer was interviewed by the Qatar Al Jazeera. She held a blown-up photo of Chinese policemen standing in lines on the streets to illustrate how the Chinese army dealt with "the peaceful protesters in Urumqi". "My people are surrounded by the Chinese army. how could they start an attack?" asked Kadeer.

However, the photo she used was found to be another photograph capturing a mass incident that happened in Shishou, Hubei Province in central China, which is thousands of kilometers away from Xinjiang. The photo was first published in Nanfang Weekly’s website on June 26 in a news story titled, Fight over the bodies in Shishou.  
 
In the video, when the Al Jazeera showed a clip of a Han Chinese girl being attacked on a street in Urumqi and asked how Kadeer felt about it, she said, "My people are protesting peacefully. Their actions are peaceful actions."

The news of the fake photo spreads over China’s Internet quickly, and stirred indignation. A web user commented that Kadeer is "crazily ridiculous in faking the photos", and the deed is "not only a joke to her ‘peaceful’ mask, but also a humiliation on the IQs of the international community".