Story Archive
2014-12-25
The group is being held at a center in southwestern China.
2014-12-24
Chinese state media says the group was illegally crossing into Vietnam.
2014-12-24
He was unable to recover from an infection due to unhygienic conditions at a detention camp.
2014-12-18
Fresh volunteers and police are being deployed to busy locations and mosques ahead of the holiday season.
2014-12-17
Failure to respond to police summons could lead to a string of forfeitures under fresh crackdown in Hotan county.
2014-12-11
He had been jailed for more than a year for ‘illegal fundraising.’
2014-12-10
Muslims in Xinjiang will be prevented from wearing religious garb the authorities believe is associated with extremism.
2014-12-10
Seven former students of jailed scholar Ilham Tohti receive sentences ranging from three to eight years.
2014-11-24
Their homes were destroyed even though they bought them from a local urban planning head.
2014-11-21
Ilham Tohti says the facts of the case remain unclear and vows to continue his appeal.
2014-11-19
Ilham Tohti's defense lawyer says there is 'little likelihood' of a reduction in sentence.
2014-11-17
They could no longer tolerate the bad food, disease, lack of clothing, and threats, one escapee says.
2014-11-17
Lawyers for the jailed Uyghur scholar are in the process of appealing his life sentence for 'separatism.'
2014-11-13
They say Chinese authorities reneged on a pledge to build places of worship as part of a resettlement deal.
2014-11-11
The prison terms range from five to 16 years.
2014-11-05
Yakob Idris’s quick physical deterioration behind bars raises questions about his death.
2014-11-05
Uyghur farmers link the problem to Han Chinese industrialization.
2014-11-04
Chinese authorities try to force journalists' groups in Turkey not to confer award on the outspoken scholar.
2014-10-30
Parents and educators are being pressured to sign pledges to keep under-18s away from mosques, fasting, and Quranic studies.
2014-10-29
The Turkic-speaking ethnic minority group has been singled out for dawn raids and compulsory registration, an exile group says.
2014-10-20
The documentary is about the detention of 22 Uyghurs in the controversial facility for more than a decade.
2014-10-18
Police say the attack was staged by Uyghur men armed with knives and explosives.
2014-10-13
The boy was in good health, says his father.
2014-10-13
Two Uyghur attackers are shot dead by police after they go on a killing spree.
2014-10-10
The women dispute official claims that rioters murdered them.
2014-10-07
They believe the ethnic minority group could face torture if returned to China.
2014-10-03
Sources say the man may have been among civilians targeted by security forces.
2014-09-25
Chinese authorities release new casualty figures four days after the violence in Bugur county.
2014-09-25
Casualties much higher as details of the Sept. 21 violence emerge.
2014-09-24
Ilham Tohti says he is still shackled, but optimistic, as an appeal is launched.
