Chinese authorities have moved to close a large number of mosques used by ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. In both the region capital of Urumqi and Kashgar in the western ...

Uyghur Rights Body Meets in Bosnia Under Tight Security Over Threats By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A body fighting ...

Birth rates in the mostly Uighur regions of Hotan and Kashgar plunged by more than 60 percent from 2015 to 2018, the latest year available in government statistics. Across the Xinjiang region ...

There were the bits of graffiti we filmed, written in Uighur, that we later had translated. "Oh my heart don't break," read one. Another in Chinese said simply: "Step by step." All men at the camp ...

The latest Human Rights Watch report said most of the village name changes took place between 2017 and 2019 – the height of ...

It may prove difficult to conceal the flagrant incongruity between MAGA isolationism and the “globalist” business dealings ...

Welcome to the row over cotton from the Xinjiang region of China. Rights groups say Xinjiang's Uighur minority (also spelled as "Uyghur") are being persecuted and conscripted for forced labour.

Citing Chinese researcher Adrian Zen, the World Uyghur Congress stated that forcibly relocated Uighur workers were employed ...

It’s too painful to think about the possibility that Japanese companies are selling products made using forced Uighur labor.” Afumetto came to Japan to study 18 years ago and currently works ...

They point to attacks in 2013 and 2014, which Uighur militants claimed responsibility for. In 2017, the Xinjiang government passed a law prohibiting men from growing long beards and women from ...

A new album of rare grooves from Soviet Central Asia reveals an era when the region was a crucible for musical fusion.

Dr. Yalcin Kayali, Associate Prof. of Eastern Languages and Literatures at Ankara University, Turkey brought out the ...