Xinjiang

A Chinese technology firm has compiled a range of personal information on 2.6 million people in Xinjiang — from their ethnicity to locations — according to a data leak highlighting the wide extent of surveillance in the restive region.…

BEIJING - The Chinese database Victor Gevers found online was not just a collection of old personal details.It was a compilation of real-time data on more than 2.5 million people in western China, updated constantly with GPS…

BEIJING - A Chinese surveillance firm is tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in the far-western Xinjiang region, according to a data leak flagged by a Dutch internet expert.An online database containing names, ID…

By Deputy Director for Global Advocacy Philippe Bolopion The Chinese government’s mass internment of an estimated one million Turkic Muslims in its Xinjiang region has caused growing concern in an increasing number of countries around…

The news of a talk by a Uygur activist spread quickly on campus, ricocheting across WeChat, the Chinese messaging app. A group of Chinese students at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, learned that Rukiye Turdush a vocal critic of…

BEIJING - Ethnic Uighurs have launched a global campaign to press China for video proof that their missing relatives are alive, turning the tables on Beijing’s use of video to counter claims that a renowned Uighur had died in…

Beijing has sent a trusted senior cadre – with a track record of versatility and economic development – to join the highest decision-making body of China’s highly sensitive Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Wang Junzheng, 56, has been…

Members of the Uygur Muslim ethnic group are calling on China to post videos of their relatives who have disappeared into a vast system of internment camps. The social media campaign, launched on Tuesday under the hashtag #MeTooUyghur,…

BEIJING - The U.S. Embassy in Beijing says it is following the case of a Chinese-born Kazakh man who had been fighting attempts by Beijing to return him to China from neighboring Uzbekistan and whose current whereabouts are…

China’s state media has released a video to counter claims that a prominent Uygur poet and musician had died – hours after his reported death prompted Turkey to condemn Beijing’s crackdown on the Muslim ethnic minority group as “a great…

Seventeen Australian residents are believed to be under house arrest, in prison or detained in China’s secretive “re-education” centres in Xinjiang, The Guardian can reveal. The 17 cases – 15 Australian permanent residents and two on…

Seventeen Australian residents are believed to be under house arrest, in prison or detained in China’s secretive “re-education” centres in Xinjiang, the Guardian can reveal. The 17 cases – 15 Australian permanent residents and two on…

Erik Prince, the former Navy Seal who founded Blackwater, hardly seems like the type who dwells on corporate niceties. He was, after all, America’s foremost mercenary executive. But there he was in Beijing, bearing an unlikely gift for…

Alfiraa Dilshat and Rashida Abdughufur were picnicking in the small seaside town of Victor Harbor in late December when Abdughufur got a video call from her mother. With Abdughufur living in Adelaide, a city in southern Australia, and…

by Agnès Pedero Rights groups urged the United Nations Monday to send investigators to China’s northwestern Xinjiang province to probe the mass detainment of ethnic Uighur and other Muslim minorities. “The abuse in Xinjiang today is so…

GENEVA - Rights groups urged the United Nations Monday to send investigators to China’s northwestern Xinjiang province to probe the mass detainment of ethnic Uighur and other Muslim minorities.“The abuse in Xinjiang today is so…

HONG KONG - A Hong Kong-listed security firm who has a former U.S. Navy SEAL on its board has signed a preliminary deal with authorities in China to build a training center in Xinjiang where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge…

Confusion reigned on Friday over whether a unit of Hong Kong-listed security firm Frontier Services Group – founded by Blackwater’s Erik Prince – had signed a preliminary memorandum to build a training base in China’s far west region of…

A Hong Kong-listed security firm run by a former US Navy SEAL has signed a deal with authorities in China to build a training centre in Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims have experienced a huge security crackdown. Frontier Services Group,…

NEW YORK - A U.S. company that stocks college bookstores with T-shirts and other team apparel cut its ties Wednesday with a Chinese company that drew workers from an internment camp holding targeted members of ethnic minority…