‘Show no mercy’: leaked documents reveal details of China’s Xinjiang detentions
More than 400 pages leaked to New York Times by Chinese political insider document brutal crackdown on Muslim minority Lily Kuo Sun 17 Nov 2019 More than 1 million […]
UN: Unprecedented Joint Call for China to End Xinjiang Abuses
22 Countries Decry Mass Detention, Seek Monitoring Twenty-two countries at the United Nations’ top human rights body issued a joint statement this week, urging China to end its mass arbitrary […]
The Anti-Islamic Movement In China – Analysis
Source: Hudson Institute By Haiyun Ma; Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University The mass human rights atrocities in Xinjiang—the region in China’s far west, where Chinese Communist authorities have imprisoned upwards […]
Sweden grants refugee status to China’s Uighur Muslims, prompting calls for UK to follow
Muslims deported to Xinjiang face detainment in re-education camps where inmates have allegedly been tortured Chris Baynes Wednesday 20 March 2019 The Independent More than a million Uighur Muslims […]
Revealed: new evidence of China’s mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang
Xinjiang Guardian and Bellingcat investigation finds more than two dozen Islamic religious sites partly or completely demolished since 2016 Lily Kuo in Beijing Tue 7 May 2019 Keriya Aitika […]
US accuses China of using ‘concentration camps’ against Muslim minority
In a highly charged attack, the Pentagon says up to 3m people could be imprisoned in detention centres Reuters Sat 4 May 2019 An aerial view of one of what […]
UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: China steps up diplomatic efforts in Geneva to deflect censure
By Frédéric Burnand in Geneva THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 22, 2019 Chinese Vice-Foreign Affairs Minister Le Yucheng arrives for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of China at […]
Wary of Xinjiang backlash, China invites waves of diplomats to visit
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2019 FILE PHOTO: Residents at the Kashgar city vocational educational training centre attend a Chinese lesson during a government organised visit in […]
China commits a disgusting self-own while defending its crackdown on Muslims
Alex Lockie China’s state-run newspaper The Global Times tried to defend the country’s practice of mass detentions of its majority Muslim ethnic minority, the Uighurs. But it committed a […]
Exclusive: China will retaliate ‘in proportion’ to any U.S. sanction over Muslim Uighurs – ambassador
Reuters International Nov 28, 2018 By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China will retaliate “in proportion” if the United States sanctions its top official in the restive region of […]
Scholars condemn China for mass detention of Muslim Uighurs
Reuters International Nov 27, 2018 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that […]
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 […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadis: Pariah within Islamic society
EXPLAINERS Pakistan’s Ahmadis: Pariah within Islamic society The Second Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan and Ordinance XX declares Ahmadis to be non-Muslims and further deprives them of religious rights. […]
Chinese paper blames West for encouraging Xinjiang extremists
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Turbulence in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang has been caused by “external factors”, […]
Chinese official warns against creeping Islamisation
Reuters International This content was published on March 10, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Men talk on a street in China’s Linxia, Gansu province, home to a large population of ethnic […]
Xi’s Marco Polo strategy
Jun 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Project Syndicate Last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a heavily orchestrated “Belt and Road” forum in Beijing. The two-day event attracted 29 heads […]
China moves to expand DNA testing in Muslim region
AP | Published — Tuesday 16 May 2017 Uighurs rest near a food stall in Kashgar, Xinjiang province in this Aug. 6, 2008 file photo. (AP) BEIJING: China appears to […]
Terror threats transform China’s Uighur heartland into security state
Reuters International MAR 31, 2017 The locked door of a neighbourhood mosque is seen in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, March 23, 2017. Many smaller neighbourhood mosques have been closed by the authorities in favour of larger more centralised places of worship, locals and an analyst said. REUTERS/Thomas Peter […]
When Marx Meets Islam
A Chinese regulation would prohibit online insults based on religion. Some decry it as antithetical to Communist values. BY MA TIANJIE MARCH 31, 2017 Almost every Chinese person with even a middle school education must, at some point, run into the famous statement about religion by Karl Marx: “Religion is the […]
China sets rules on beards, veils to combat extremism in Xinjiang
Reuters International MAR 30, 2017 BEIJING (Reuters) – China will step up a campaign against religious extremism in the far western region of Xinjiang on Saturday by implementing a range […]
