What’s behind the recent unrest? A concerted campaign by Beijing to assert control over a restive region that for centuries was dominated by the Uighurs (pronounced WEE-gurs), Turkic-speaking ...

These are just a fraction of the missing Uighurs in China; the Muslim minority group which the authorities accuse of terrorism, writes Alex Crawford. Whole families are unaccounted for and thought ...

At least 1 million Uighurs have been interned since 2017 in more than 85 identified camps within Xinjiang-- an autonomous region in Northwest China, according to Western reports. Most of the ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced sanctions against an unidentified number of officials in Thailand for ...

More than one million are in jail.” The Uighurs are Muslim. The spouse and four siblings of our guide (whose identity we’ll ...

The crowd composed of mainly Uighurs, Americans, Canadians and Australians demanded an end to China's oppression against Muslim minority. The Xinjiang region is home to 13 million Uighurs.

In an effort to combat "religious extremists," China has announced a series of bans on a range of physical attributes, including "abnormal beards" and the wearing of veils in public places.

On that same day 10 years earlier, China had launched its crackdown on Uighurs protests against government. The Muslim minority was increasingly frustrated with Beijing's policy on religion and ...

And now there are signs that Beijing has expanded its surveillance to include Uighurs living overseas. NHK spoke to one of the thousands of Uighurs living in Japan who has firsthand experience of ...

Foreign governments and human rights activists say it has been a force in the crackdown and surveillance of Uighurs in the region, running some detention camps. The U.S. Treasury Department last ...