Tag: China
As regional governments adjust to the new realities created by the Taliban’s return to power, China and Russia are bound to play increasingly important roles. At this moment, West Asia is in flux. Regional governments ...
Uyghurs living in Afghanistan are terrified that the Taliban’s takeover of the country could mean they will be extradited to face harsh punishment in China or suffer other dangers in the war-torn South Asian nation. ...
More than 80 percent of the Uyghur children at a village preschool in China’s far-western Xinjiang have at least one parent in state custody, while pupils with both parents in detention attend a separate “welfare ...
A professor who has researched and written about classical Uyghur literature for more than 40 years is serving a prison sentence of 10 years in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, university officials and other ...
A group of British lawmakers urged the government to take tougher action against China on Thursday over its treatment of minority groups, including a partial Winter Olympics boycott and cotton trade ban. In a report ...
Human rights and faith groups have requested in an open letter to the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee that the 2022 Winter Olympics be moved out of China because of its genocide against the Uyghur ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey called in China’s ambassador on Tuesday after his embassy said it had “the right to respond” to opposition leaders who criticised China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims three decades ago. The politicians, IYI ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara on Thursday as Uighur Muslims protested against the treatment of their ethnic kin in the farwestern Chinese ...
BEIJING (AP) — Abdullah Metseydi, a Uighur in Turkey, was readying for bed last month when he heard commotion, then pounding on the door. “Police! Open the door!” A dozen or more officers poured in, ...
Through its systematic attempt to silence and eliminate Uighur cultural identity in the Xinjiang province, China has been embarking upon projects that criminalise Uighur activities in order to cleanse the Muslim minority of its particularism. ...