Taiwan New The images that emerged from Xinjiang Province in China last week of Uighur women having their clothes forcibly cut from their bodies by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) law enforcement officers were deeply shocking. But the tragic fact is that this abuse is relatively mild when compared to some of the litany of oppressive acts being carried out on the local population there by the Chinese Communist ...

  UCA News Mass incarceration of Uyghurs could backfire on the Party As Chinese President Xi Jinping continues to ramp up his program of religious persecution, nowhere is it being executed with more intensity and violence than on the Muslim Uyghur community in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China.But there is a new technological bent to the program, one many observers believe could ...

UNPO Pictures posted on social media show that Uyghur women in the so-called Xinjiang province have had their dresses cut by police officers in public, following a ban on long top and dresses. The local authorities stated that wearing these clothes is ‘’against modern civilization’’.  This discriminatory practice happens in abroader context of repression of the Uyghur community, including similarly invasive ...

EuroAsiaNet Kazakhstan is trying an ethnic Kazakh from China for illegally crossing the border. The case threatens to aggravate nationalist views of the powerful neighbor. Almaz Kumenov A trial taking place in a small quiet town in eastern Kazakhstan, just across the border from China, may decide the life or death of Sayragul Sauytbay. Sauytbay, 41, an ethnic Kazakh and Chinese citizen, is accused of using ...

Connor Dilleen ASPI China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in the Xinjiang autonomous region has garnered increased attention in recent months, due to Beijing’s policy of mass arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in ‘political re-education centres’. In April, the chairs of the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China called the detention program the ‘largest mass incarceration ...