Uighurs
Two Muslim Uyghurs shot dead by Chinese forces for sneaking out of country
Chinese police have shot dead two suspected “terrorists” on the border with Vietnam, part of a group of people trying to sneak out of the country, state media said on Friday [April 17 2015].
Uyghur Muslim child beaten and abused by Chinese adults
Adults in the video are terrorising a Uyghur Muslim child like a wild animal by kicking, stepping on his fingers, and dragging him, while the child is screaming in a traumatised state. He was accused of ‘stealing’
Chinese authorities kill three members of Uyghur Muslim family in brutal ‘anti-terror’ raids
Authorities in northwest China’s restive Xinjiang region have killed three people and jailed two others from an ethnic Uyghur family during a three-month operation targeting suspected ‘terrorists’, according to state media and a relative of one of those killed.
Uyghur Muslim scholar jailed nine years for ‘refusing to cooperate’ with authorities
A court in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region has sentenced a prominent ethnic Uyghur Muslim religious scholar to nine years behind bars for “refusing to cooperate” with Chinese authorities, according to police and local officials.
Chinese authorities demolish home of Uighur Muslim family holding Quranic studies
Authorities in northwestern China’s restive Xinjiang region have demolished the home of an ethnic Uyghur Muslim family that had served as an underground school for Quranic studies, according to local officials and residents.
Chinese court jails Uighur Muslim for 6 years for growing beard, wife gets 2 years for wearing veil
A court in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has sentenced a man to six years in prison for “provoking trouble” and growing a beard, a practise discouraged by local authorities, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Is it time to care about the Muslims in China?
By Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat Chinese Uyghur Muslims Under Oppression: Where is the World?
The Forced Transfer of Young Uyghur Women to Eastern China
A new report by the Uyghur Human Rights Project examines a recently implemented People’s Republic of China (PRC) policy that recruits young Uyghur women from majority Uyghur areas of East Turkestan (also known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region or XUAR) and transfers them to work in factories in urban
China to neighbours: Send us your Uighurs
Kabul, Afghanistan - Isreal Ahmet, an ethnic Uighur who immigrated to Afghanistan from western China, lived and worked in Kabul for more than a decade before being detained and deported by Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) last summer.
Uighur villagers appeal for the release of jailed elderly scholar
Residents of a county in northwest China’s restive Xinjiang region have petitioned local authorities for the release of an elderly religious scholar whose health has declined since he was jailed six years ago for “illegal religious teaching activities” and “murdering a student,” sources said.
