A Ray of Hope for the Uighurs of China
West calls on China to close Uighur detention camps Source: Reuters By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) – Western countries including France, Germany and the United States called on China on […]
Imran Khan, XI Jinping sign 16 agreements to curb poverty in Pakistan; Beijing declines to reveal amount loaned to Islamabad
Beijing: China said it will provide the “necessary support” to Pakistan to tide over the present financial crisis, expand CPEC projects as the two countries signed 16 agreements on […]
China aggressively increasing mass detention of Uighur Muslims
China Supersizes Internment Camps in Xinjiang Despite International Criticism Source: Wall Street Journal By Rob Taylor CANBERRA, Australia—Chinese authorities aggressively expanded the scale of internment camps in Xinjiang this year, […]
UK confirms reports of Chinese mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims
Source: The Guardian By Lily Kuo British diplomats who visited Xinjiang have confirmed that reports of mass internment camps for Uighur Muslims were “broadly true”, the foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has […]
China says interning Muslims brings them into ‘modern’ world
Posted : 2018-10-17 09:48 China on Tuesday characterized its mass internment of Muslims as a push to bring into the ”modern, civilized” world a destitute people who are easily […]
China Must End Its Campaign of Religious Persecution
Source: Politico By SEN. CHUCK GRASSLEY The United States was founded on the premise that all individuals are created equal, with certain unalienable rights. Throughout our history, Americans have fought […]
In China’s Catholic heartland, Vatican deal brings Communist Party closer
Source: Reuters DONGLU VILLAGE, China (Reuters) – In 1996, a tiny village with a huge Gothic-style church in China’s Catholic heartland of northern Hebei province was the scene of a […]
Recent Chinese dealings with faith groups reflect a pattern of government restrictions on religion
Source: Pew Research Center BY SAMIRAH MAJUMDAR Police patrol as Muslims leave after morning prayers at a mosque in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. (Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) While the Chinese government asserts that it […]
China Breaks Silence on Muslim Detention Camps, Calling Them ‘Humane’
Source: The Washington Post By Chris Buckley BEIJING — Under mounting international criticism, China has given its most extensive defense yet of its sweeping campaign to detain and indoctrinate Muslims, with […]
China says interning Muslims brings them into ‘modern’ world
AP October 17, 2018 Despite growing alarm from the US and the United Nations, China has maintained that Xinjiang’s vast dragnet of police surveillance is necessary for countering latent extremism […]
The leaders who unleashed China’s mass detention of Muslims
Source: The New York Times By Chris Buckley BEIJING — Rukiya Maimaiti, a local propaganda official in China’s far west, warned her colleagues to steel themselves for a wrenching task: detaining large […]
Chinese official says ‘sinicization’ of religion in Xinjiang must go on
Source: Reuters SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The “sinicization” of religion must be upheld to promote ethnic solidarity and religious harmony, a senior Chinese official has said in the troubled western region […]
China admits to locking up Uyghurs, but defends Xinjiang crackdown
Source: CNN By Ben Westcott and Nanlin Fang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) China has fiercely defended an escalating crackdown in the far western province of Xinjiang as necessary for security, claiming inmates […]
China finally admits it is building a new archipelago of concentration camps. Will the world respond?
Source: The Washington Post By Editorial Board October 11 WHEN REPORTS began filtering out of China last year about a massive indoctrination and internment drive against ethnic Muslim Uighurs in the […]
China has just made it legal to isolate its Uighur Muslim minority from society for ‘re-education’
Source: News.com.au BY Gavin Fernando THE CHINESE government has dropped a bombshell. The country’s far-west Xinjiang has just revised its legislation to allow local governments to detain those it believes to […]
Defying China, Malaysia releases Uighur detainees
‘ Source: Reuters BY A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia has freed from detention 11 ethnic Uighur Muslims who fled to the southeast Asian nation after a Thai jailbreak […]
US lawmakers call on Trump to help detained Chinese Muslims
Source: Associated Press By YANAN WANG and DAKE KANG BEIJING (AP) — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants President Donald Trump to help Muslims respond to a sweeping crackdown […]
Chinese authorities launch ‘anti-halal’ crackdown in Xinjiang
Source: The Guardian By Lily Kuo Authorities in Xinjiang have launched a campaign against the “spread of halal”, claiming the growing number of halal products is encouraging religious extremism in […]
China launches anti-halal campaign in Xinjiang
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OCTOBER 10, 2018 FILE PHOTO: An Uighur vendor cuts meat at a street market in Kashgar, Xinjiang province August 3, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria […]
Pakistan PM Imran Khan to Make First Official Visit to China in November
Pakistan is in talks with the Chinese officials on how to focus on areas that are important to the Imran Khan government. PTI Updated:October 4, 2018, Washington: Pakistan Prime Minister […]