Story Archive
2017-11-30
The well-respected scholar and rights advocate is serving a life term in prison for calling for greater rights for the Uyghur people.
2017-11-30
Manat Hamit of Burultokay county in Xinjiang's Altay region was jailed for more than 16 years over files found on his computer.
2017-11-28
Huseyin Imintohti had applied for protection through the United Nations’ refugee agency.
2017-11-24
Those who haven’t been taken away to ‘political study centers’ are being forced to learn Mandarin, including the elderly.
2017-11-22
Wanna Suansan allegedly rented apartments in the Bangkok suburbs for suspected militants to construct bombs.
2017-11-20
Officials recapture five, but report others could have crossed into Malaysia.
2017-11-16
Officials are ordering Muslims in Xinjiang to hand in any religious items, as well as clothing and other goods from neighboring Kazakhstan.
2017-11-13
Dolkun Isa, former general secretary of the World Uyghur Congress, is elected president, with Rebiya Kadeer elevated to a supervisory role.
2017-11-13
Up to 500 ethnic Kazakh owners of businesses large and small are detained and 'sent to Yining city,' a local resident says.
2017-11-08
The incident occurred more than a decade earlier as the son was preparing to get married.
2017-11-07
Prayer posture, hair color, and how one wears a watch are now reasons to detain Uyghurs.
2017-11-07
However, officials decline to elaborate what constitutes a terrorist video, or religious extremism.
2017-11-06
Until recently, authorities avoided harassing relatives of security personnel and public servants.
2017-11-03
The move is aimed at Uyghur government workers who fail to uphold Chinese policies in the politically sensitive region.
2017-11-02
Abdurehim Heyit may have been arrested for performing a song previously cleared by Chinese censors but that has come under scrutiny during the harsh crackdown in Xinjiang.