For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted ...

The secret deportation by Thailand of dozens of Uyghurs to China that has sparked international condemnation is a diplomatic win for Beijing and a snub to the United States and the United Nations, who ...

CNN contacted the Xinjiang provincial government for comment but has not yet received a response. 'Forced intimacy' Tensions have remained high in Xinjiang -- a resource-rich area long inhabited by ...

During President Trump’s first term, the State Department declared China’s crackdown on Uyghurs a genocide. Now, the issue rarely surfaces. By Amy Qin During President Trump’s first term, the United ...

Belly in the dust, Guan Heng risked everything to film sites in China’s north-western region of Xinjiang. Once uploaded online his videos showed the world where Chinese authorities were detaining ...

Turkish authorities are increasingly restricting the legal residency of Uyghurs seeking safety from the Chinese government. Until recently, Uyghurs who escaped repression at home felt safe in Türkiye, ...

On the night of July 29, 2018, Chinese authorities raided the home of Dr. Abdulqadir Jalaleddin, a celebrated Uyghur poet. Police placed a black hood over his head and took him away. Jalaleddin’s ...

Since late 2016, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in northwestern China have been victims of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Chinese government. As an international student living in ...

For years, Uyghurs have told the world what is happening to our people: mass detention, forced indoctrination, torture, cultural erasure, and the systematic dismantling of our faith and identity. We ...

China has long invited foreign delegations to Xinjiang to promote its preferred narrative of Uyghur life. But something new and troubling happened recently. For first time, a group of Turkish ...

More than a million Chinese Communist officials are being dispatched to live with local families in the western region of Xinjiang, a move seen as a sign of the government’s increasingly tightened ...