Tag: Uyghurs

Omar Huseyin was arrested in 2017 for making a pilgrimage to Mecca

Authorities in the restive northwestern region began scaling back their crackdown on religion in early 2020

Authorities have arrested and jailed young Uyghurs for receiving religious instruction from their parents or grandparents

The international community must not ignore the systematic abuses allegedly perpetrated against Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities

The Chinese Foreign Ministry denounced the report as “completely invalid and a political tool serving the US and some Western forces”

Uyghur rights groups say the document validates allegations of abuse in the region

Authorities in Xinjiang sent local cadres to celebrate an Islamic holiday with Uyghurs in China’s far-western region amid ongoing repression

The EU condemned “in the strongest possible terms that the Uyghurs have been systematically oppressed by brutal measures"

“The perhaps worst human rights violation of our time is treated as a matter of internal review by the perpetrator"

Officials want to eliminate Islam and Uyghur culture in the western region, say analysts quoted by RFA