Beijing bans some Muslims from observing Ramadan, or boarding public transport while veiled, but it allows millions of others to practice their religion without hindrance The road to Linxia, in China’s vast, sere northwest, is known locally as the Quran Belt, with a profusion of newly built mosques and Sufi shrines lining the motorway. Some…
A Uyghur farmer compelled to join an anti-terror campaign waged by Chinese authorities in the troubled Xinjiang (East Turkistan) region has been hacked to death by two murder suspects, local officials said, raising concerns among the ethnic minority group about the risk of joining such government operations. Tursun Emet was killed when he stopped the…
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) have detained an ethnic minority Uyghur man for spreading “rumors” after he alleged in an online post that Chinese security forces killed thousands of people in the troubled region’s Yarkand county earlier this month. The 22-year-old man uploaded the article onto an overseas website, the official Tianshan news website…
Enver Tohti was a surgeon in a hospital in Xinjiang (East Turkistan), in the northwestern part of China, when, in June 1995, he was instructed by his superior to prepare for an adventure — surgery in the field. In the morning, when the doctor and his team arrived at their destination, he realized they were…
