Tag: Uyghurs

The Catholic congregation had been getting older, and church administrators could not afford to keep up the building

US and EU lawmakers have called for boycotts of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics unless China stops its repression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang

Rights groups expressed concern that China will again use a global event as a pretext for repressive policies targeting Uyghurs

More than 80 percent of the Uyghur children at a village preschool in Xinjiang have at least one parent in state custody

Residents said authorities had taken “many neighbors” in for interrogations, but could not provide an estimate

Reports said that since 2017, the Chinese Communist Party has operated a system of detention camps for Uyghurs

The three-day summit addresses religious persecution around the world, but has focused heavily on China’s targeting of Uyghurs

The report says most people have stopped praying or showing any outward signs of observing Islam, including grooming, for fear of persecution

The renamed streets will converge at an area where China's Fudan University is planning to open a campus

Officials from Xinjiang and Beijing told reporters in Beijing that no religious sites had been forcibly destroyed or restricted