It’s not hard to spot the ethno-racial profiling Chinese authorities use to clamp down on Uighur resistance. In recent years, Chinese authorities have established numerous checkpoints in cities and towns across Xinjiang, the vast province that abuts post-Soviet Central Asia. In some areas, one is unable to walk more than a couple of hundred meters…
DetailsAuthorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region have jailed the four wealthiest ethnic Uyghurs in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) city for acts of “religious extremism,” according to an official, amid a crackdown he said is unlikely to end any time soon. A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, recently told RFA’s Uyghur Service that Abdujelil…
DetailsFar from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing. “It’s a kind of frontline laboratory for surveillance. KASHGAR, China — This is a city where growing a beard can get you reported to the police. So can inviting too many people to your wedding, or naming your…
DetailsChina is well on the way to one of its biggest crackdowns in the restive and remote northwestern region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) since ethnic riots racked the capital of Urumqi in 2009. Numbers released in state-media reports and in court press releases from the region show that since May more than 800 people, most…
DetailsIt’s not really “China’s Chechnya” yet, but the insurgency in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) is growing fast. Incidents of anti-Chinese violence are getting bigger and much more frequent. Since March, 176 people have been killed in six separate attacks on Chinese police and government officials, local collaborators and ordinary Chinese residents of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uighur…
DetailsA lawyer representing Uyghur scholar Ilham Tohti, detained on charges of separatism, says the evidence he has been allowed to review by the prosecution so far is incomplete, while Chinese authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) have yet to clarify whether he will be tried in secret. Tohti’s lawyer Li Fangping…
DetailsThe Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is failing to deliver on its promises to quell violence in Xinjiang (East Turkistan). On July 28, bloody clashes between Uyghur protestors and para-military personnel in Yäkän (Ch. Shache) left at least 96 dead; leaders of Uyghur exile communities put the death toll at 2,000. Three days later, Jümä Tahir, the government-appointed…
DetailsThe city of Karamay in China’s turbulent Xinjiang (East Turkistan) region is currently hosting the 13th Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Sports Games. To keep the competition safe from terrorism, the city government announced an unusual safety measure: A ban on “abnormal” Muslim-associated clothing and hairstyles on public transport. Xinjiang (East Turkistan) is home to the Uighur people, a…
DetailsBeijing 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…
DetailsA 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…
DetailsChinese 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…
DetailsEnver 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…
DetailsFinancial Times BY Alexa Olesen AUGUST 8, 2014 Ordinary Chinese social media users have reacted with nonchalance and even some rejoicing to news that Xinjiang (East Turkistan), a far western region beset with bloody ethnic unrest, may tighten its family planning policies to curb population growth among minority Uighurs. The plan, part of a blueprint…
DetailsOn the morning of July 30, in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, an imam named Juma Tahir led prayers to mark Eid al-Fitr. Soon after, the 74-year-old was found stabbed to death outside his 600-year-old mosque. His murder capped days of violence in China’s vast and troubled northwest — and, many fear, augured…
DetailsEighteen people who took part in violence that killed dozens near China’s border with Pakistan have handed themselves in to police. Authorities say a terrorist gang attacked a police station and government buildings in Shache county near Kashgar on July 28, killing 37 people before police shot dead 59 of the attackers. Xinjiang (East Turkistan)…
DetailsA city in China’s Xinjiang (East Turkistan) province has temporarily banned people with veils, head scarves and long beards from boarding buses. Experts say attempts at repressing their culture are fuelling violence and extremism. On August 4, in the northwestern Xinjiang (East Turkistan) city of Karamay, authorities announced a ban on people with head coverings…
DetailsLos Angeles Times By Barbara Demick 2014-08-07 What happened in the dead of night on a desolate road near a desert oasis in northwestern China is so shrouded in mystery that it would seem that nearly everybody who witnessed it took an oath of silence — or is dead. But the most reliable accounts suggest…
DetailsThe Independent Adam Withnall Thursday 07 August 2014 A Chinese city has banned people with Islamic clothing or big beards from boarding buses, in what has been criticised as “an openly racist and discriminatory policy”. The measures have been brought in across the north-western city of Karamay in the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) province, where hundreds…
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