Uighurs
Behind the Veil: China anti-Islam policies hurt Muslim Uyghurs Businesses
The Silk Road trading centre of Kashgar has been Muslim for centuries, but despite hordes of people thronging the main bazaar, Gulnur’s headscarf shop had barely any customers.
Uyghur Muslim sisters: “We can’t practice Islam freely in East Turkestan. If you don’t defend us who will?”
Turkish police on Thursday used tear gas to disperse a group of about 100 protesters at the Chinese Embassy after they knocked down a barricade in anger over China’s treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority.
China tells Uyghur Muslim students: You want a diploma? Then eat during Ramadan
The Chinese authorities have been doing all they can to discourage Muslim Uighurs from fasting since Ramadan began. Free slices of watermelon were handed out in the middle of the day at Urumqi’s University of Medicine in Xinjiang, a region with a huge Muslim Uighur population.
Chinese Authorities Urge ‘Close Watch’ on Muslim Uyghurs During Ramadan
Authorities in north-western China’s troubled Xinjiang region have ordered government workers to closely monitor the daily movements of ethnic Uyghurs during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, with at least one county issuing guidelines calling for the intrusive searches of convenience stores, repair shops, and mosques.
Ramadan 2015: China ‘Beer Competition’ In Predominately Muslim Uighur Xinjiang Region
A local government in the predominately Muslim southern part of China’s Xinjiang region has hosted a “beer competition” ahead of Ramadan, which an exiled ethnic group has called blatant incitement to the Islamic faith. The beer festival took place last week just before the start of the important religious holiday
Uyghurs in China: We Buried The Quran In Our Backyards
By Hena Zuberi - With the news of China forcing imams to dance in public and to make oaths to keep children away from religion in what is known as Xinjiang, where government officials warned that Muslims “During Ramadan do not engage in fasting, vigils or other religious activities,” effectively
Chinese Authorities Restrict Fasting in Ramadan
Adding to Uighur Muslims’ concerns, some parts of the far western Xinjiang district have banned Muslim party members, civil servants, students and teachers from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, reviving every year’s religious restrictions.
China’s Anti-Islam Policies in Xinjiang ‘Fill Local Prison’
Harsh policies enacted by a newly appointed Communist Party secretary to a Uyghur-populated county in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are causing great hardship to county residents, while filling a local prison with those found to be in violation of the laws, sources say.
Five Uyghur Muslims with beards on trial for ‘religious extremism’
A group of five Muslim ethnic Uyghur men who sport “crescent moon-shaped” beards are on trial in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region for “religious extremism” after they were found to have secretly attended unsanctioned Islamic sermons, according to a Uyghur member of the ruling Communist Party.
China orders Muslim shopkeepers to sell alcohol, cigarettes, to “weaken” Islam
Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have ordered shop owners and restaurateurs in a mainly Muslim Uyghur village to sell alcohol and cigarettes or face closure of their establishments, despite a public backlash against the products discouraged by followers of Islam, an official source said.
