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In 2019, Bellingcat reported that "there is systematic repression and imprisonment of the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang, and the destruction of cultural and religiously significant Islamic buildings in this province may be a further part of this ongoing repression."
Sep 22, 2022 · About eleven million Uyghurs—a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group—live in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million people...
- Lindsay Maizland
Jun 10, 2021 · Uyghurs living in Turkey protested China in March for the country's human rights abuses in its western Xinjiang province. A new Amnesty International report substantiates these abuses,...
- Ailsa Chang
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The Uighurs (also spelled as Uyghurs) are an ethnic minority group mostly living in the Xinjiang autonomous regionof the People’s Republic of China. The Uighurs are predominantly Muslims. They have been practising Islam for centuries, tracing their religious influence to the Karakhanid, a Turkic fiefdom that ruled Central Asia from the 9th to the 1...
Most Uighurs in China live in the region called Xinjiang, a Chinese term to mean “new frontier” or “borderland”. Because of its location along the ancient Silk Road, Xinjiang has a long history of cross-migration by different minority groups. In China, it has been officially referred to as the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) since 1955. Ot...
Indiana University Professor Bovingdon Gardner, author of the book The Uyghurs: Stranger in Their Own Land, says that when it comes to the issue of sovereignty “there isn’t any universal agreement on what constitutes sovereign claim of a territory” for the Uighurs. “So there’s no lever with which to sort of pry [prise] apart the claims” of China an...
In early 2017, shortly before the mass arrests and re-education programmes were rolled out by Beijing, Zhu Hailun, then head of the Xinjiang Communist Party Political and Legal Affairs Commission, was quoted as saying that with the “powerful fist” of the Chinese government, “all separatist activities and all terrorists shall be smashed to pieces” i...
In a report in June, Amnesty International described life in Xinjiang as a “dystopian hellscape“, with former detainees revealing torture and other rights abuses committed “in an effort to forcibly instill a secular, homogeneous Chinese nation” according to the ideals of the country’s Communist Party. Surveillance in Xinjiang is also pervasivewith ...
China has vehemently denied the accusations of genocide and other abuses, insisting that the policy of Xi Jinping towards Uighurs is aimed at “tackling extremism”, while giving minorities the skills to become more employable and contribute to the economy. In a previous interview with Al Jazeera, Einar Tangen, a political analyst who advises the Chi...
- Ted Regencia
Jan 20, 2021 · Minority groups in Xinjiang say they aren’t given jobs or contracts because of widespread racial discrimination. The resentment has sometimes boiled over into violence, including attacks on...
Mar 24, 2021 · CNN — The United States and its allies are stepping up pressure on China in a unified show of force against Beijing’s alleged repression of Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic minority, in the...
Aug 31, 2022 · Uyghur. A long-awaited report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) into what China refers to as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) has concluded that...
