Oyghan (36) no longer has contact with her brother, her sister and her parents. She fled twelve years ago from the Chinese region of Xinjiang to the Netherlands, her whole family still lives there. 'Dial…
Turkey urges China to close 'concentration camps' where Uyghurs are trapped and to respect the rights of this Muslim minority in China. More than one million Uyghurs are being...
Beijing is ruling hard over the Xinjiang province, where the vast majority of Muslim Uyghurs live. The Chinese have an estimated one million Uighurs stopped in re-education camps where they have to renounce Islam.
China is not getting cold or cold from the increasing international criticism about the treatment of Muslim minority in the country. It strengthens the country in the belief that it carries out a justified fight against terror. Meanwhile, some million Uyghur men are being held in 73 camps in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
Minister Bert Koenders (Foreign Affairs) sends his human rights ambassador to Beijing to address the use of spyware in China. Koenders says that the Chinese government seriously violates the privacy of citizens in the city of Urumqi in Xinjiang China by oblige them to install an app on their Android phones that the government can spy on.
On an earthquake in northwest China, eight people were killed in the city of Taxkorgan on Thursday morning. Another eleven people were injured, state government agency Xinhua said. The earthquake had a power of 5.5 and shook parts of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
In the turbulent region of Xinjiang in western China have three men with knives inserted at passersby. Five people were killed before police could shoot the attackers. That the newspaper South China Morning Post Wednesday (local time) reported on the authority of local authorities.
An attack on one of the Chinese Communist Party building Wednesday cost the lives of one victim. All four offenders were shot, according to the authorities. The violence took place in the restive Xinjiang region in the west of the country.
A landslide caused by bad weather has at least 35 people cost the lives in northwest China. A mountain village in the Xinjiang region is partly buried under the mud, reported state news agency Xinhua Thursday.
China enforces a French journalist to leave the country because she had delivered a message criticizing the way Beijing handles the minority Uighurs. The employer of journalist Ursula Gauthier, the weekly magazine L'Obs, has stated that.
Chinese security forces have 28 violent protesters slain in the western province of Xinjiang. That made the regional government said Friday. The activists are part of the militant group that in September this year in Xinjiang 16 people stabbed at a coal mine.
China persecutes the former chief editor of the official Communist Party newspaper, the Xinjiang Daily. The 58-year-old Zhao Xinwei must answer for corruption, after he had been critical of the way the State had handled the violence in the western region of Xinjiang.
