The Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang, western China, are living in one of the most heavily-policed and oppressive states in the world. This map helps explain why. China's ...

A symposium focused on stability, development and ethnic unity of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region was held ...

This progress paved the way for Xinjiang to harmonize its administrative structure with that of the inland regions. The concept of a unified multi-ethnic country started taking root among the ...

China’s top ethnic policy official has dismissed claims that Xinjiang is being “assimilated” into Chinese culture as “ignorance of history”. Pan Yue, director of the National Ethnic ...

Zhanargul Zhumatai, an ethnic Kazakh journalist and artist, was taken away from her mother’s house in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on 10 February. The state security police detained her after she communicated ...

At least 1 million Uighurs have been interned since 2017 in more than 85 identified camps within Xinjiang-- an autonomous region in Northwest China, according to Western reports. Most of the ...

48 individuals from predominantly Muslim ethnic groups have been allegedly interned in camps or sentenced without a fair trial and sent to prison in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang ...

TAIPEI--Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically replacing the names of villages inhabited by Uighurs and other ethnic minorities to reflect the ruling Communist ...

“As a result, 3.06 million people of various ethnic groups in Xinjiang have been lifted out of poverty by the end of 2020,” he said. As of last month, Chen said, Xinjiang has played host to an ...