All Abduweli Ayup wanted to do was start a school. He's a Uyghur linguist who specializes in Turkic languages. After years of studying abroad, he returned to his native China in 2011 and started ...

China bans Uyghurs from visiting ‘sensitive countries’ with large Muslim populations - Members of minority community can only travel to limited number of nations such as Kazakhstan for business, Human ...

A demonstration was held in London against China's proposed "mega-embassy" at the old Royal Mint court, which is close to the ...

How can I dare to face this reality?” Abduweli Ayup, on finding family members’ records Ayup, who ran a Uyghur language school in Kashgar, fled Xinjiang in August 2015 after spending time in ...

The Uyghur language has been marginalized in schools, and religious sites have been systematically destroyed or repurposed. It was against this backdrop of intensifying persecution that some ...

Though I always understood the gravity and brutality of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) genocide and crimes against humanity ongoing against Uyghur Muslims, the birth of my son has given me ...

Opened in 2006, the shop, whose name means “hope” in the Uyghur language, serves as a window into a fascinating and diverse culture. The Uyghurs are a primarily Muslim population from inner ...

Uyghurs and Hong Kongers living in Ireland issued an open letter to the Irish government on Monday, urging them to adopt a ...

Human rights advocates have slammed the UK government for welcoming Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in an attempt to ...

At the time, more than 1 million Uyghur and other Muslim minority peoples were estimated to be held in extrajudicial camps for “re-education” and indoctrination. Descriptions of detentions ...