The Diplomat Uyghurs fear that Beijing wants nothing less than for them to disappear as a people. Omer Kanat Uyghurs struggled for decades to draw attention to the suffering of their people. Chinese authorities have long violated Uyghurs’ cultural, linguistic, and religious rights, marginalizing them in their own homeland. Now they are being rounded up on an unprecedented scale, documented in a new Uyghur H ...

Middle East Eye Hundreds of thousands of people have reportedly been detained in Nazi-style concentration camps, where they are tortured and forced to denounce Islam.   Author: Gulnaz Uyghur While learning the Quran as a kid, I was taught about the five pillars of Islam, including the pilgrimage to Mecca. Today, while I may be free to make this journey alongside millions of other Muslims, thousands of ...

  Daily Sabah The Culture and Tourism Ministry has initiated a new program of promotions targeting the Far eastern market, announcing its intention to recruit Chinese celebrities in its promotion campaigns, including world famous actor and producer Jackie Chan. The actor was once promoted with the slogan "One billion Chinese can't be wrong." If the deal goes through, the ministry intends to hire Chan, ...

e-international Relations Xinjiang has recently been in the international spotlight due to the advent of what observers in the media and scholarly communities have described as a ‘security’, ‘police’, or ‘surveillance’ state (Rajagopalan 2018, Chin and Bürge 2017, Millward 2018). This refers to a conglomerate of security practices implemented by the Chinese authorities and mainly aimed at the Uyghur ethnic ...

NewYork Times URUMQI, China — She was one of the most revered academics from the Uighur ethnic minority in far western China. She had written extensively and lectured across China and the world to explain and celebrate Uighurs’ varied traditions. Her research was funded by Chinese government ministries and praised by other scholars. Then she disappeared. The academic, Rahile Dawut, 52, told a relative last ...