Daily O Such a decision coming in the thick of Ramzan assumes special significance for the Islamic minority, the Uighurs. In an extraordinary move, the China Islamic Association (CIC), which enjoys the moral and material patronage of the government, announced rather surprisingly that all mosques in China should now raise the national flag and study the Chinese Constitution along with socialist core values t ...

Hong Kong [China], May 22 (ANI): There has been a sharp uptick in government-backed persecution of Christianity and other religions in China, but none are currently suffering as much as the Muslim population in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Some 11 million Uighurs reside in this northwest Chinese province. Of course, using the word "autonomous" to describe Xinjiang is a complete misnomer, be ...

By Editorial Board May 20 at 7:22 PM CHINA IS undertaking a repugnant campaign to destroy the identity of a minority people, the Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang province in the far northwest. The Chinese government has in recent years blamed violent attacks in the region on Islamist extremists and has targeted Uighurs and others for pressure and persecution. But evidence is emerging of a systematic cultural clea ...

Daily Caller The People’s Republic of China (PRC) occupied the East Turkestan Republic in 1949 and renamed it the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. In 1951, just south of Xinjiang, the Communists invaded Tibet and absorbed into the PRC as the Tibet Autonomous Region. Neither province is autonomous in any respect. Their sheer size makes Xinjiang and Tibet important. Historic Tibet—before the PRC transferred ...

The Economist WHEN the authorities manage to lure or drag home a fugitive accused of corruption, they crow. But they are quieter about their equally successful campaign to repatriate Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang, in China’s far west. Many Uighurs chafe at the growing presence of Han Chinese in their region, and at increasing restrictions on their personal and religious freedom. Some t ...