VOA United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet has called on China to accept observers in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Bachelet made the request on Monday. Her appeal came as Human Rights Watch released a report on the area’s Turkic, mostly Uyghur minority population. The group's report says that Uyghurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang face unjustified detention, restrictions on religious a ...

  The Atlantic Children and parents are being ripped apart on a massive scale. It may rob an entire generation of their Muslim identities. Tahir Imin is the type of father who likes to take a video of his daughter each and every week. His phone is full of clips and photos of her: in a tutu, holding up a drawing, on a merry-go-round. Even at age six, she would ride piggyback on him as they made-believe ...

The Public Discourse by  Jennifer S. Bryson Americans need to pay attention to what is happening to the Uyghurs in western China. Failure to respond to the crisis could result in profound human suffering and damage to America’s strategic interests. A terrifying human disaster is currently unfolding in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region—which is now anything but autonomous. Americans need to ...

FT All too often over the past century, when repressive governments have committed egregious acts, the rest of the world — because of ignorance, fear or greed — has simply shrugged. China’s treatment of its ethnic Uighur population and other Muslim minority groups should not be allowed to become one of those moments. In the past month, the United States congressional-executive commission on China and a Unit ...

VOA WASHINGTON - Aygul insists she's not really in the "Eid mood." But that didn't stop her from preparing a traditional Uighur meal for family and friends on this holiday at her home in northern Virginia. In between handing out bowls of homemade laghman noodles and cups of hot tea, Aygul tears up as she and her guests discuss the plight of their families back home in China's far western region of Xinjiang. ...