A family of suspected Uyghur Muslims at the centre of a diplomatic tussle between China and Turkey must remain in detention until their true nationalities are proven, a Thai court ruled today. The case is being closely monitored because any eventual outcome could have an impact on hundreds of ...
BEIJING (AFP) - A court in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has sentenced a man to six years in prison for "provoking trouble" and growing a beard, a practice discouraged by local authorities, a newspaper reported Sunday. The court in the desert oasis city of Kashgar sentenced the ...
A court in Thailand on Friday rejected claims that a family of 17 suspected ethnic Muslim Uyghurs held by immigration authorities for a year had been illegally detained, as the group’s lawyer and supporters vowed to appeal the ruling. The group of four adults and 13 children—two of whom were born ...
More than 450 people were killed in China's restive mainly Muslim Xinjiang region last year, a rights group said -- with three times as many deaths among members of the Uighur minority than ethnic Han Chinese. Xinjiang has seen a wave of unrest, labelled by authorities as "terrorism" and blamed ...
A U.N. human rights investigator on Wednesday criticized China’s crackdown on the Muslim Uighurs in the far western region of Xinjiang, citing “disturbing stories” of harassment and intimidation against the ethnic minority. Xinjiang has been roiled by ethnic tensions between the Uighurs and ...
Chinese extremists in Xinjiang are fleeing overseas to fight with Isis in Iraq and Syria and then returning to take part in plots at home, state officials in China have claimed. Authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, announced plans to ...
BEIJING – Chinese officials say that members of the country's Muslim Uighur ethnic minority have gone overseas to fight with ISIS, which controls sections of Syria and Iraq, and returned to take part in plots at home. Authorities in the far-western region of Xinjiang, which borders Afghanistan ...