The Conversation The Chinese government’s denials of its mass interment of Xinjiang’s Uyghur citizens have evaporated as international pressure has piled up in recent weeks. In their place has come propaganda extolling the “re-education centres” in which the Uyghurs are held, and which new evidence from the BBC has shown are rapidly expanding. The Uyghurs are a largely Islamic people that comprise the large ...

Attending an institution of higher learning like KU allows you to be in an environment cherishing inclusion and diversity of opinion. But you quickly come to find not all the world is like that. Recently a professor brought awareness of a situation thousands of miles and light years away from our Mount Oread utopia: the brutal religious persecution of Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang Province of northwest Chi ...

The epoch time BRUSSELS—European lawmakers have called for sanctions to be issued against Chinese officials responsible for human-rights abuses and a halt on exports of cyber technology to China. A group of EU parliamentarians published a new draft resolution that was made public on April 18, urging Beijing to stop its persecution of Uyghur and Kazakh minorities, Falun Gong adherents, Tibetans, and Christia ...

Urumqi, China, Apr 15, 2019 / 11:08 am (CNA) Government-run social media and facial recognition technology are being used to help monitor and detain Muslims in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. This technology has been around China since 2016, but it has been a growing concern in regards to violations of religious freedom and human rights. Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking ethnic minority that mainly i ...

The Diplomat A Chinese-born Kazakh was fighting deportation in Uzbekistan. Now no one is sure where he is. Central Asia is yet again embroiled in China’s ongoing crackdown on Muslim minority groups in its farwestern region. In a series of videos posted online, Halemubieke Xiaheman, a Chinese-born Kazakh businessman, said he was fighting attempts by Beijing to return him to China from neighboring Uzbekistan. ...