Xinjiang

BEIJING – 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…

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…

By Abbas Faiz, University of Essex A letter signed in early July by 22 Western countries, including the UK, Australia, Canada and France, raised serious concerns to UN officials about China’s incarceration of Uyghur people in so-called…

When news broke that senior officials in China were saying 90% of Uighurs detained in Xinjiang’s notorious detention centres had been released, Nurgul Sawut’s phone started going crazy. “My Whatsapp, my Signal, my Facebook, everyone was…

BEIJING - Officials from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region said Tuesday that most of the people detained in the area’s contentious re-education centers have been moved out of the facilities and have signed “work contracts” with…

BEIJING - Officials from China’s northwestern Xinjiang region said Tuesday that most of the people who were in the area’s controversial re-education centers have since left the facilities and signed “work contracts” with local…

On Wednesday, Sadam Abdusalam went to Australia’s federal Parliament House for the first time and spent almost 12 hours meeting politicians – meetings he has spent almost two years hoping for – in which he pleaded for their help to…

SYDNEY - Muslims who escaped China’s crackdown in Xinjiang province still live in fear, saying new homes abroad and even Western passports afford them no protection against a state-driven global campaign of intimidation.With…

by Eva Xiao From the expansive dunes of the Taklamakan Desert to the snow-capped peaks of Tianshan, Chinese authorities are selling troubled Xinjiang as a tourist idyll, welcoming travellers even as they send locals to internment camps.…

Australia remains “deeply concerned” about China’s treatment of the Uighur people, including use of forced labour, the foreign affairs minister Marise Payne has said. On Monday Payne revealed that China had blocked Australia’s attempts…

UN ambassadors from 37 countries released a letter Friday defending China’s treatment of Uighur and other minorities in the Xinjiang region, in direct response to Western criticism earlier this week. Envoys from across the EU — along…

GENEVA - U.N. ambassadors from 37 countries released a letter Friday defending China’s treatment of Uighur and other minorities in the Xinjiang region, in direct response to Western criticism earlier this week.Envoys from across…

China on Thursday labelled as “slander” a letter sent to top United Nations officials by more than 20 countries condemning Beijing’s treatment of ethnic minorities. An estimated one million mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are held in…

GENEVA - More than 20 countries have written to top United Nations human rights officials condemning China’s treatment of Uighur and other minorities in the western Xinjiang region, in a letter released Wednesday.U.N. ambassadors…

By Eva Xiao The three men were so busy staging a fake car crash they failed to notice the very people they were trying to block: foreign journalists heading towards one of China’s notorious internment camps. A small truck slowly inched…

ISTANBUL - A decade after deadly riots tore through his hometown, Kamilane Abudushalamu still vividly recalls the violence that left him an exile.On July 5, 2009, Abudushalamu was hiding with his father on the 10th floor of an…

OSAKA - As the Group of 20 summit formally kicked off in Osaka on Friday, Rebiya Kadeer, a prominent political activist for China’s Uighur ethnic minority, urged Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to highlight Beijing’s alleged persecution…

A prominent political activist for China’s Uighur ethnic minority, Rebiya Kadeer, will be allowed into Japan during this week’s Group of 20 leaders’ summit, her supporters have said.Japanese government sources have confirmed Tokyo…

A prominent political activist for China’s Uighur ethnic minority, Rebiya Kadeer, will be allowed into Japan during this week’s Group of 20 leaders’ summit, her supporters have said.Japanese government sources confirmed Tokyo has…

BEIJING - Belgium says it is working toward providing visas to a Uighur family that went missing after being escorted out of its embassy in Beijing last week under murky circumstances.The woman and her four children disappeared for…