Beijing: Five people have been killed in China's far-western Xinjiang region after attackers drove a vehicle into a government compound and set off a makeshift explosive device, in an incident the country's official state media have described as a "terrorist attack". The five dead include the ...
As long as they're not Uighur. LANZHOU, China — Ma Xin couldn’t find the Salafi mosque. We were walking through the northwestern city’s Xiaoxihu neighborhood, a traditionally Muslim minority-dominated area. Ma, a 24-year-old Chinese Muslim who’d recently graduated from university and was working ...
A second and third generation of Uighurs far removed from their Chinese homeland find home in Jammu and Kashmir. Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir - On a wintry November morning in Srinagar, the largest city in Indian-administered Kashmir, Mohammad Abdullah sits on the carpeted floor in his ...
China has a long-standing problem in its oil rich northwestern region of Xinjiang and it is persisting with solutions that have patently not worked. Xinjiang is a predominantly Muslim area that has more in common with Central Asian Muslim republics than it does with Beijing. China has ruled ...
Source: christiantoday.com Islamic extremism has infiltrated inland China from its base on the western border, the country's top religious affairs official claimed on Monday. The Xinjiang region is home to the Muslim Uighur population, a heavily persecuted minority group. Hundreds have been ...
Chinese authorities have begun confiscating passports from people in the western region of Xinjiang, which has seen regular unrest. The move, which the government says is aimed at combating "terrorism", has been criticised by human rights groups. Many Muslims in Xinjiang say they face widespread ...
The region is home to about 10 million Uighur Muslims who say they face widespread discrimination The Chinese government is requiring all residents of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in the country’s northwest to hand their passports over to police, the latest restriction on movement in ...
Police officers in parts of the vast western Chinese region of Xinjiang have been ordering residents to hand over their passports since October, according to residents interviewed by telephone this week and online photographs of orders from local police departments. At least four official police ...
India is set to send back to China three Uyghurs who were jailed in 2013 for illegal entry and espionage, almost two years after they completed Indian court-ordered prison terms, documents show. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) decided in May to deport Abdul Khaliq, Abdul Salam and Adil to ...
In an effort to exert more control in China’s troubled Xinjiang region, Beijing is forcing the Uyghur people to work for free on various public works projects, according to a World Uyghur Congress (WUC) report issued this month. Called the “hashar” by the Uyghurs, the WUC contends that the ...