he following article was written and researched by Rachel Harris, teacher of ethnomusicology at SOAS, University of London, and leader of the Leverhulme research project, Sounding Islam in China; and Aziz Isa Elkun, London-based Uyghur writer and blogger actively engaged in promoting Uyghur culture and history. The views expressed and research presented in this blog are those of the…
DetailsThe Stream looks at the plight of China’s Uighurs and other stories from social media Uighur ‘re-education’ in China Thousands of Uighur Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region have been reportedly detained in so-called re-education camps where they are forced to renounce their cultural and religious identities. The detentions are part of China’s efforts to influence the politics of a…
DetailsFamily members of Abdulreshit Seley Hajim buried the 65-year-old Uyghur businessman under the close scrutiny of Chinese security officials this week, nine months after he was put in a political reeducation camp, his brother told RFA’s Uyghur Service. Seley was born in Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) city in Xinjiang’s Ili Kazakh (Yili Hasake) Autonomous Prefecture,…
DetailsAs part of the crackdown, the Chinese government prohibits Uyghur Muslims from following religious practices and they aren’t allowed to observe a fast during the holy month of Ramadan. In fact, government employees are prohibited from fasting and even visiting mosques during Ramadan. By : Vanilla Sharma – International Business Times A Muslim man arrives at the…
DetailsAt the 2018 Oslo Freedom Forum, BuzzFeed News’ China bureau chief and Asia correspondent Megha Rajagopalan explored how China’s government is systematically imposing a high-tech police state on the country’s citizens – and how new technology is making it easier for this alarming trend to affect people around the world.
Deliberate, systematic human rights abuses are happening in China’s northwest. Reporting and research published in recent weeks shows that the Chinese government is targeting the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region’s roughly 11 million Muslims for “re-education.” Anywhere from several hundred thousand to more than a million people have been or are being held in “centers,” where they have to “disavow their Islamic…
DetailsThe government in China is further tightening its grip on minority groups in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as it continues to use its deradicalization campaign to suppress local residents, Uighur leaders and human rights activists warn. China started a campaign in April 2017 to arrest local…
DetailsNurbiye Nurtay, an ethnic Uyghur Muslim from northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), has been living in Malaysia practicing traditional Uyghur medicine for the last three years. She lost contact with her family in Ghulja (Yining) county, in the XUAR’s Ili Kazakh (in Chinese, Yili Hasake) Autonomous Prefecture, nearly a year ago, and only recently discovered…
DetailsTwo Uyghur civil servants in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have been jailed for failing to send members of their ethnic group to “political re-education camps,” according to sources, as part of a crackdown by authorities on so-called “two-faced” officials. Omerjan Hesen, 34, director of archives for the Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefectural…
DetailsOn a rainy April morning in Washington, about 150 protestors gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy, waving light-blue flags and shouting slogans on behalf of an ethnic group few Americans have ever heard of. The Uyghurs (pronounced WEE-gurs) — an ancient people spread across much of East and Central Asia — mainly practice Islam,…
DetailsA young Uyghur woman has gone missing after returning to her home in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) from studying abroad in Malaysia, and is believed to be detained in a “political re-education camp,” according to her Germany-based sister. Gulgine Tashmemet flew home to Ghulja (in Chinese, Yining) city in the XUAR’s Ili…
DetailsAn elderly Uyghur woman has died from health complications after being incarcerated at a political “re-education camp” in Ili Kazakh (in Chinese, Yili Hasake) Autonomous Prefecture, in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to sources. Since April 2017, Uyghurs accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” views have been jailed or…
DetailsHong Kong [China], May 22 (ANI): There has been a sharp uptick in government-backed persecution of Christianity and other religions in China, but none are currently suffering as much as the Muslim population in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Some 11 million Uighurs reside in this northwest Chinese province. Of course, using the word “autonomous” to describe Xinjiang is…
DetailsBEIJING (AFP) – All Chinese mosques should raise the national flag to “promote a spirit of patriotism” among Muslims, the country’s top Islamic regulatory body has declared, as the Communist Party seeks to tighten its grip on religion. Flags should be hung in a “prominent position” in all mosque courtyards, the China Islamic Association said…
DetailsThe Chinese government has rejected a diplomatic demand from a group of Western countries, including Canada, to discuss issues related to the Xinjiang region and conditions for the largely-Muslim Uyghur population there. A new academic report, meanwhile, suggests the number of people detained in Xinjiang facilities used for political re-education appears to be in the…
DetailsBeijing, China (CNN)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 grip over the area’s predominantly Uyghur Muslim population. The so-called “home stays,” announced by the government, target farmer households in southern…
Details‘Becoming Family’ Campaign Intensifies Repression in Xinjiang Chinese officials, since early 2018, have imposed regular “home stays” on families in the predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang. These visits are part of the government’s increasingly invasive “Strike Hard” campaign in the region, home to 11 million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslim minorities. Chinese officials, since early…
DetailsOfficials in China’s northwestern Xinjiang recently fired all ethnic minority teachers as part of a racial-profiling crackdown in the region. As local government departments continue an initiative to shut down schools dedicated to educating Uyghur, Kazakh, and Mongolian children or merge them with schools for China’s Han majority, authorities forced all minority teachers older than…
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