Story Archive
2019-06-28
Qaharjan Qawul had been detained for calling ‘blacklisted’ families and traveling to Turkey.
2019-06-25
But rights groups dismiss his remarks as propaganda and call him a traitor to the Uyghur community.
2019-06-24
Aytursun Eli was targeted by police after she travelled to Dubai for her tourist agency.
2019-06-21
China has detained hundreds of thousands of Muslims accused of extremism, while Rohingya continue to face violence at the hands of Myanmar’s military.
2019-06-20
One Indonesian Muslim leader praised the internment camps as “great” for teaching Uyghurs life skills.
2019-06-19
Chinese authorities entered the embassy grounds and removed the family before returning them to Xinjiang.
2019-06-17
Washington says “highly inappropriate” visit risks endorsing Beijing’s problematic view of the Uyghur issue.
2019-06-17
Reports suggest Nurmemet Tohti was only released after becoming incapacitated by diabetes and heart disease.
2019-06-14
If accepted, Michele Bachelet would become the highest level UN official to visit the region.
2019-06-13
The five-year-old girl’s body was recovered from a river nearly a week after she died, sources say.
2019-06-07
Senior Pentagon, State Department officials see security threats arising from abuses of Muslims and seek global response.
2019-06-06
The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act would seek accountability for China’s harsh crackdown in Xinjiang.
2019-06-06
Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback warns that appeasing China on its Uyghur detention camps will embolden Beijing and other repressive regimes.
