The translators kept bursting into tears. That was a problem for Rebiya Kadeer, the tiny and fiery matriarch of the Uighur diaspora, who lives in Fairfax County and who was leading a protest march on ...

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URUMQI, China - Ethnic Uighurs scuffled with armed police today in a fresh protest in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, where at least 156 people have been killed and more than 1,400 people ...

A group of Uighur Muslims, an ethnic minority facing widespread repression in China, has filed a criminal complaint in Turkey against Chinese officials for crimes against humanity, genocide, torture ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand faced a blizzard of international criticism Thursday, and its consulate in Istanbul was ransacked, after it deported 109 ethnic Uighur refugees to China despite fears that they ...

Demonstrators supporting Tibetans, Uighurs and Hong Kongers take part in a protest against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to coincide with the 72nd National Day of the People's Republic of China, ...

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LONDON (AP) — An independent, unofficial body set up by a prominent British barrister to assess evidence on China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uighur people concluded Thursday that the Chinese ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A senior Uighur Communist Party official in China's far-western Xinjiang has urged Uighur cadres to reveal "two-faced people" and "clean them out", the latest in a string of senior ...

Ziba Murat poses for a portrait while holding a photo of her mother Gulshan Abbas in Virginia, U.S., June 16, 2021. Murat's mother Gulshan Abbas was sentenced for crimes of terrorism and "disrupting ...

A group of Uighur Muslims, an ethnic minority facing widespread repression in China, has filed a criminal complaint in Turkey against Chinese officials for crimes against humanity, genocide, torture ...