Responding to an increase in violent incidents in Xinjiang and elsewhere in China, authorities launched a nationwide crackdown on terrorism in May of 2014. The campaign, which has focused mostly on Xinjiang, has steadily escalated over the past two years, and controversial policies targeting the ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Prosecutors in Indonesia are seeking an eight-year prison term for a Chinese Uighur accused of involvement in plots to attack government officials and minority Shiite Muslims. In a sentencing request, state prosecutors on Monday said Nur Muhammet Abdullah, known as Ali, was ...
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein attends a media briefing at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland October 12, 2016. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse(reuters_tickers) BEIJING (Reuters) - China expressed anger on Wednesday after the United ...
(Geneva) – Ilham Tohti was selected by a jury of 10 global Human Rights organizations (See list below). The Award is given to Human Rights Defenders who have shown deep commitment and face great personal risk. The aim of the award is to provide protection through international recognition. Strongly ...
An elderly Uyghur woman living in Xinjiang is being threatened and harassed by police, who have warned her not to speak to foreign media after preventing her from traveling abroad to visit her son and grandchildren in Turkey, sources say. Rabihan Musa, 82 and a resident of Bortala city in ...
Ankara is bowing to Beijing’s demands by keeping a prominent Uyghur activist imprisoned in Turkey as fears grow among the Uyghur diaspora that he will be sent back to China, an exiled Uyghur leader told RFA. Abduqadir Yapchan has been detained near Istanbul since Aug. 30 at the behest of the ...
A Chinese academic, jailed for life two years ago for campaigning for the rights of the Muslim Uighur people, has won a prestigious annual human rights award, organizers said on Tuesday. Ilham Tohti, who is an ethnic Uighur, was selected from three finalists for the Martin Ennals Award, whose ...
BEIJING // Tough religious restrictions on Muslim minorities in China’s far west may have driven more than 100 to join ISIL, according to a US think tank. Beijing has long claimed that ISIL is recruiting Uighurs from the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang, and blamed outside forces for fomenting ...
A Uyghur mother whose son believed to have been forcibly taken away after 2009 riots in Urumqi was released on May 27 after two years in detention and reunited with her other children, a source close to the family said. Widow Patigul Ghulam had been one of the most vocal Uyghurs who have been ...
We at love a great Chinese football story when we can find one, unfortunately positive stories and Chinese football tend to be an oxymoron. However, this year Xinjiang football is presenting an absolutely wonderful story that has amazed us. Xinjiang’s clubs is in the China Yi League, or two ...