Researchers say China is running hundreds more 'concentration camps' holding Uighurs
Uighur activists said Tuesday they have documented nearly 500 camps and prisons run by China to detain members of the ethnic group, alleging that Beijing could be holding far more than the commonly cited figure of 1 million people. The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, ...
World Bank scales back Xinjiang school project in China over human rights concerns
The World Bank announced Monday it was cutting back a vocational education project in China's Xinjiang province, even though an internal investigation did not back up claims the program was linked to the mistreatment of minority Muslim Uighurs. The Washington-based development lender launched a review ...
China warns U.S. that criticism over Uighurs not 'helpful' for trade talks
The United States and 22 other countries at the United Nations pushed China on Tuesday to stop detaining ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, prompting China's U.N. envoy to warn it was not "helpful" for trade talks between Beijing and Washington. China has been widely condemned ...
EU awards jailed Uighur activist the Sakharov rights prize, angering China
The European Parliament awarded its annual Sakharov Prize for the defense of human rights on Thursday to jailed ethnic Uighur economics professor Ilham Tohti, angering Beijing, which called him a criminal and a terrorist. Uighur rights advocate Tohti was jailed for life in China in ...
China disturbs even the Uighur dead in 'development' of Xinjiang
China is destroying burial grounds where generations of Uighur families have been laid to rest, leaving behind human bones and broken tombs in what activists call an effort to eradicate the ethnic group's identity in Xinjiang. In just two years, dozens of cemeteries have been ...
U.S. bars Chinese officials over crackdown on Xinjiang Uighurs and other Muslim minorities
The Trump administration Tuesday slapped travel bans on Chinese officials involved in a massive crackdown on Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in its west. The State Department said it would not issue visas to Chinese government and Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for ...
Uighur in Belgium fears for family in China after asylum snag
A Uighur refugee living in Belgium complained Tuesday that Chinese authorities had cracked down on his family after they applied for the right to join him. Abdulhamid Tursun's case has raised controversy in Belgium, where rights groups accuse the Belgian authorities of having effectively "delivered ...
U.S. pressures China on Hong Kong, Uighurs and trade at U.N. General Assembly
The United States ramped up pressure on China at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday, rallying countries against Beijing's treatment of Uighur Muslims and warning it is watching the situation in Hong Kong. President Donald Trump fired several shots across the bow of the fellow Security ...
At U.N., Trump pushes religious freedom at event that slams China for treatment of Uighurs
U.S. President Donald Trump called for an end to religious persecution on Monday at a U.S. event on the sidelines of the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations that featured a woman whose Uighur father has been imprisoned in China. China has ...
In saga of one man and his textbooks, Uighurs see Chinese bid to erase their culture
For 15 years, Yalqun Rozi skillfully navigated state bureaucracies to publish textbooks that taught classic poems and folk tales to millions of his fellow minority Uighurs in China's far western region of Xinjiang. That all changed three years ago when the ruling Communist Party launched ...
A bad year for Xi clouds communist China's 70th birthday celebrations
It was meant to be an unabashed celebration of the triumph of communism in China, and of President Xi Jinping's authority as the country's undisputed leader for years to come. But as the People's Republic of China approaches its 70th anniversary on Oct. 1, Xi ...
As loved ones in China disappear amid crackdown, Uighurs in Japan speak out
As the global outcry over China's crackdown on the Uighurs grows, members of the same ethnic minority in Japan are calling for help out of desperation to discover what has happened to their families back home. At a symposium in Tokyo last month, 10 ethnic ...
