In English, the name is officially spelled Uyghurby the Xinjiang government[48]but also appears as Uighur,[49]Uigur[49]and Uygur(these reflect the various Cyrillic spellings Уиғур, Уигур and Уйгур).

May 24, 2022 · Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls "re …

Since 2014, the government of the People's Republic of China has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities in Xinjiang which has often been characterized as persecution or as genocide.

Apr 15, 2025 · Uyghur, a Turkic-speaking people of inner Asia. Uyghurs live primarily in northwestern China, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where they have been subject to a government crackdown since 2017. A small number …

May 31, 2021 · The Uyghurs are a Muslim minority in China, living in Xinjiang province at a crossroads of culture and empire. Today it's estimated that more than 1 million Uyghur people have been detained in...

Apr 12, 2019 · About eleven million Uyghurs—a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group—live in the northwestern region of Xinjiang. The Chinese government has imprisoned more than one million people since 2017...

In brief, Uyghur history is the story of a small nomadic tribe from the Altai Mountains competing with rival powers in Central Asia, including other Altaic tribes, Indo-European empires from the south and west, and Sino-Tibetan empires to the east.

The meaning of UIGHUR is a member of a Turkic people powerful in Mongolia and eastern Turkestan between the 8th and 12th centuries a.d. who constitute a majority of the population of Chinese Turkestan.

Modern Uyghurs are thought to be the descendants of a myriad of empires and kingdoms – the Huns, Tocharians and Scythians, the Gokturks and Old Uyghurs, the Idiqut and Qarakhanids, Hotan, Chaghatay, Altisheher, and most recently the two republics of East Turkistan.

The Uyghurs (pronounced WEE-gurs, and also spelt as Uighurs) are mostly Muslims, numbering between 11-12 million and living in China’s western Xinjiang province. The People's Republic …