Uighur Muslims

Wrecked mosques, police watch: A tense Ramadan in Xinjiang
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Wrecked mosques, police watch: A tense Ramadan in Xinjiang

The corner where Heyitkah Mosque in China’s restive Xinjiang region once hummed with life is now a concrete parking lot…
China frees ‘lost’ Uighur wives but at a price, families say
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China frees ‘lost’ Uighur wives but at a price, families say

Their Uighur wives vanished in 2017, swept up in a Chinese dragnet tackling Islamic extremism, now they’ve been released —…
China’s treatment of Uighurs an ’embarrassment for humanity’: Turkey
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China’s treatment of Uighurs an ’embarrassment for humanity’: Turkey

Turkey on Saturday condemned China’s treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as “a great embarrassment for humanity,” adding to…
Own up to mass Muslim detentions, Amnesty tells China
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Own up to mass Muslim detentions, Amnesty tells China

  China must come clean about the fate of an estimated one million minority Muslims swept up in a “massive…
Muslims in China’s ‘Little Mecca’ fear eradication of Islam
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Muslims in China’s ‘Little Mecca’ fear eradication of Islam

  Green-domed mosques still dominate the skyline of China’s “Little Mecca”, but they have undergone a profound change — no…
China’s crackdown on Uighurs spreads to even mild critics
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China’s crackdown on Uighurs spreads to even mild critics

Zhang Haitao was a rare voice in China, a member of the ethnic Han majority who for years had criticized…
China’s Xi calls for greater counter-terrorism cooperation with Turkey
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China’s Xi calls for greater counter-terrorism cooperation with Turkey

Chinese President Xi Jinping has told his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan that the two should deepen counter-terrorism cooperation, amid Chinese…
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