NATHAN VANDERKLIPPEASIA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING PUBLISHED MAY 15, 2018UPDATED MAY 16, 2018 Open this photo in gallery Local police patrol a village in Hotan prefecture, in China's western Xinjiang region, on Feb. 17, 2018. The Chinese government has pushed back at foreign criticism of ...
Becoming Family’ Campaign Intensifies Repression in Xinjiang Chinese officials, since early 2018, have imposed regular “home stays” on families in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang. These visits are part of the government’s increasingly invasive “Strike Hard” campaign in the ...
Authorities in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, are setting up “burial management centers” as part of what the Uyghur exile community say is a bid to control all aspects of life for members of their ethnic group—even the act of dying. Recent posts on a ...
Nearly 2,000 ethnic Uyghurs living in exile from their homeland in China marched on Friday in Brussels, political seat of the European Union, to call attention to the plight of hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs held by Beijing in political re-education camps in northwest China’s Xinjiang ...
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) are forcing Uyghur students and their parents to sign pledges that they will not fast during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan in a bid to further undermine the religious traditions of the mostly Muslim ethnic ...
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang region have detained 19-year-old Uyghur Erfan Hezim—a former member of China’s national youth football team—in a “political re-education camp” for “visiting foreign countries” after he traveled abroad to train and take part in matches, according to local ...
A Uyghur pop star in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), who had worked to bridge the divide between his ethnic group and the country’s Han Chinese majority, is missing and believed detained in a “political re-education camp,” according to sources. Ablajan Ayup, 34, known ...
In China’s northwest Xinjiang province, the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority have nowhere to hide. Facial recognition software reportedly alerts authorities if targeted individuals stray more than 1000 feet from their homes and workplaces. Residents face arrest if they fail to download ...
May 17, 2018 By Peter Apps / ReutersIn China’s northwest Xinjiang Province, the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority have nowhere to hide. Facial recognition software reportedly alerts authorities if targeted individuals stray more than 1000 feet from their homes and workplaces. ...
by denton.2@osu.edu at 12:33pm Source: Sup China (5/17/18) China’s gulag for Muslims The evidence of a campaign to “re-educate” tens, or even hundreds of thousands, of Muslims in western China is building. By Lucas Niewenhuis Xinjiang Province has come to be known as one of the most ...