‘As someone who has extensively travelled in the region for 15 years, Holdstock’s book gives us a rare glimpse into the land and its people, and how the policies of the Chinese state have led to an extreme sense of alienation among the Uighurs, with some of them turning to radical steps and violence.’ (Gulf…
BEIJING: A court in China’s mainly Muslim East Turkistan (Xinjiang) region has sentenced a man to six years in prison for “provoking trouble” and growing a beard, a practise discouraged by local authorities, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The court in the desert oasis city of Kashgar sentenced the 38-year-old Uyghur to six years, while…
The article, about a Muslim couple in the western Chinese region of East Turkistan (Xinjiang) being sentenced to prison for growing a long beard and wearing a burqa, appeared in state news media on Sunday. By Monday morning, it had vanished. Such occurrences are commonplace in China, where censors frequently purge without explanation online information…
During 2014, the ruling Chinese Communist Party intensified its targeting of ethnic minority groups with an “anti-terror” campaign in the troubled northwestern region of East Turkistan (Xinjiang), and ratcheted up controls on freedom of expression, Amnesty International said in its annual global human rights report. Ethnic minorities including Tibetans, mostly Muslim Uyghurs, and Mongolians faced…
