Detention campaign 'the largest mass incarceration of a minority population in the world today'The Associated Press · Posted: May 17, 2018 3:20 AM ET | Last Updated: May 17 Omir Bekali talks about the psychological stress he endured in a Chinese internment camp during an interview in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Since 2016, Chinese authorities in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang have ensnared tens, possibly hun ...

Lowy Institute By   James Leibold One of the worst human rights abuses in recent times is occurring in China’s far-western region of Xinjiang. The Chinese Communist Party has rounded up possibly one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities in purpose-built concentration camps where they are subjected to mental and physical abuse without legal recourse. Despite the scale and intensity of this cr ...

East Asia Forum Author: Michael Clarke, ANU China’s concerns with terrorism are almost entirely focused on the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang’s geopolitical position at the eastern edge of the Islamic and Turkic-speaking world and the ethno-cultural distinctiveness of its largely Turkic-Muslim ethnic groups have constituted a challenge to the centralising imperatives of successive Chinese gover ...

    East Asia Forum By Tayir Imin Uighurian Washington – While the Muslims around the world have been gathering to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, with feasts to mark the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting , the Ramadan holiday meant nothing but performing Eid prayer for the Uighur Muslims across the world who wonder about the fate of more than 2 million brothers and sisters in their homelan ...

The Australian An Australian national security agency head was shown a secret list of about 100 Chinese fugitives that Beijing believes live in Australia, evidence the communist nation’s hunt for former officials and business people is much wider than publicly known. The Weekend Australian can reveal a Chinese minister produced the list during a private lunch in Beijing with the security agency chief in lat ...