BBC News One of the world's best-known rugby players has become the latest sports star to criticise China for its treatment of the Muslim Uighur population. In a Twitter post, Sonny Bill Williams also criticised others for choosing "economic benefits over humanity". Arsenal footballer Mesut Ozil recently spoke out on the issue. China has been accused of a "mass internment" of one million Muslims in the Xinj ...

A police officer during a rally in Hong Kong on Sunday in support of the Uighur minority in China. Photograph: Dale de la Rey/AFP via Getty Images The Guardian Police pepper-spray demonstrators after peaceful protest in support of minority Hong Kong riot police pepper-sprayed protesters to disperse crowds in the heart of the city’s financial district after a largely peaceful rally in support of China’s ethn ...

The daughter of Ilham Tohti, a Uighur intellectual who has been imprisoned in China, has said she does not know if her father is alive. Jewher Ilham made the remark after accepting a top European human rights prize on behalf of her father. Ilham Tohti was jailed for life on separatism charges in 2014. China has provoked an international outcry its treatment of Uighurs, an indigenous Muslim minority, in the ...

Aimed at cultivating outstanding young people，the first two - day training course on “the international situation and ways of national struggle” was held in the office of Uyghur Academy in Bahcelievler District of Istanbul from Dec.12 to Dec.15, in 2019. 14 young Uyghurs receiving education in the universities of Turkey participated in this training course. The executive chairman of Uyghur Academy Mr. Abdul ...

  CNN Hong Kong (CNN)The US House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday demanding a tougher response from the Trump administration over reports of mass detention centers run by the Chinese government in Xinjiang. The Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act, which still needs to gain approval from the US Senate, calls for concrete measures to be taken against Beijing over allegations that up to two million Mu ...