BitterWinter Authorities have issued a notice as per which, any display of religious belief, such as wearing a burqa or having a long beard, is akin to a crime, and “criminals” must surrender themselves. Bitter Winter has accessed an official document issued by the Xinjiang government. It is a notice that was adopted against religious belief and designates normal religious behavior as “committing a crime.” ...

New York Times BEIJING — Rukiya Maimaiti, a local propaganda official in China’s far west, warned her colleagues to steel themselves for a wrenching task: detaining large numbers of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. The Chinese government wanted to purge the Xinjiang region of “extremist” ideas, she told her co-workers, and secular Uighurs like themselves had to support the campaign for the good o ...

Al Jazeera Uighurs are neither extremists nor separatists as Beijing claims. They just want their rights. Just imagine what it would be like if armed security forces stormed into your home, arrested your loved ones, put them in a concentration camp, and took away your children. This is what happened to the family of 44-year-old Turghunjan, who I met while on a visit to Turkey to interview Uighur refugees. T ...

Washington Post U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday called for a stronger response to the Chinese government’s repression of Muslims in China’s far west and asked the FBI to investigate claims of intimidation against some immigrant communities in the United States. The remarks, coinciding with annual rights report by the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, were the latest signal of more assertive U.S. stat ...

Telegraph China has legalised internment camps believed to be holding hundreds of thousands of Uighur Muslims in the first official recognition of the centres. A new law allows for “vocational skill education training centres” to “carry out anti-extremist ideological education"  and implement “psychological and behavioural correction to promote thought transformation of trainees, and help them return to soc ...