article_snippet: The Uighurs vehemently dispute this claim.
article_snippet: Above, a rare photo of two men from the Uighur minority who were not involved in the court case .
article_snippet: The origins of the Uighur tribe lie deep in the Altai mountains of Mongolia - or in Turkmenistan, depending on which version of the story you believe.
article_snippet: According to the Uighurs, the Uighurs origins are Turkic and date back more than 5,000 years.
article_snippet: By contrast, the Han Chinese say the Uighurs are descendants of the Tiele tribes of Mongolia, who by 842, had coalesced into the Uighur people and moved to the Tarim Basin in what is now modern China.
article_snippet: Uighur vehemently dispute this claim.