Chinese soldiers participate in an anti-terror drill in Hami, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, China, July 8, 2017. © 2017 Reuters Muslim Minorities Held for Months in Unlawful Facilities (New York) – The Chinese government should immediately free people held in unlawful “political education” centers in Xinjiang and shut them down, Human Rights Watch said today. Since about April 2017, the authorities hav ...

Zachary Abuza Members of China’s Uighur population have played a small but important role in the spread of global jihad, and Beijing is playing an increasingly assertive role in pursuing them as China’s influence grows. China’s Uighur exodus began following the 2009 riots in Xinjiang that led to the deaths of nearly 200 people. At first, China relied on economic instruments to pressure its neighbors into re ...

Beijing Should End Campaign to Weaken Vital Rights Mechanisms Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in the Palais des Nations at the United Nations in Geneva, January 18, 2017. © 2017 Denis Balibouse/Reuters (Geneva) – The Chinese government should end its efforts to weaken United Nations mechanisms that promote human rights, Human Rights Watch said in a new report today. UN agencies should vigorou ...

Aziz Isa Elkun Aug 26, 2017 Ona bright midsummer morning when you take your little girl’s hand and walk to school listening the birds singing on the way along the narrow footpath, you feel thankful to life that today will be one of your best days full of enjoyment just like any other day that you have hastily left behind you. At that moment I was feeling this happiness, walking with my daughter, holding her ...

  The police then ushered our group — Gilles Sabrié, a photographer; Vanessa Piao, a bureau researcher; and me — into a van and drove us to a station. We were under detention. By EDWARD WONG, JULY 19, 2017 So went my final reporting trip as Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times. It was my fifth visit to Kashgar, on the rim of the Chinese empire. I found that officials had tightened security measu ...