Generations of Uighurs, the Turkic ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, have played it at parties and weddings. But today, if they download it, play it or share it online, they risk ending up ...

BEIJING (AP) – Twenty ethnic Uighurs in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have been given sentences of up to life in prison following their convictions on charges including terrorism and ...

This episode focuses on the Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang region and argues that forced labor is being used at industrial scale ...

A Belgian diplomat was expected to travel to China's restive Xinjiang region on Tuesday to confirm the whereabouts of a Uighur family that was escorted from Belgium's embassy in Beijing by police last ...

At the Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar in the heart of Urumqi, everything is bought and sold from tiny stalls blasting local music, in a square filled with Islamic architecture. It's a place that ...

LONDON — The cries echoing off the walls of the jail frightened and weakened him in equal measure, Mamattursun Omer said. “I didn't see, but I could hear the unbearable screams coming from both sides ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - Hundreds of Uighurs rallied in Kazakhstan's largest city Almaty on Thursday to mourn those who died in violent clashes in the neighboring Xinjiang region of China last month and to ...

WASHINGTON - On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has hit China with new sanctions by declaring that China’s policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in western Xinjiang Province ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The vice-governor of China's Xinjiang region responded to international condemnation of state-run detention camps on Tuesday by saying they were vocational centres which had helped ...

Xinjiang lies beyond the place where the great wall crumbles to the earth. Across these hot sands the first Turkic camel trains probed into the Middle Kingdom 2,000 years ago, laden with ivory and ...

Chinese security forces have shot dead up to 12 Uighurs in a raid on what they describe as a munitions center in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, in the country’s northwest. The raid was carried out ...