Also known as: New-Uyghur language, Taranchi dialect, Uighur language Written and fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content ...
According to the United Nations, more than 1 million Chinese Uighur Muslims are being detained in governmentinternment camps. China calls these prison camps in Xinjiang province "re-education" facilities meant to fight extremism and separatism in the region. The U.S.Congressional-Execut...
The Chinese government has repeatedly denied the allegations but has refused access to human rights organisations, journalists and independent monitoring bodies. "The evidence of the scale and severity of the human rights violations being perpetrated in Xinjiang against the Uighur Muslims is now ...
Muslims wait to buy mutton at a butcher's shop ahead of Eid al-Adha celebrations in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Oct. 13, 2013. Xinjiang province Nir Elias/Reuters A Uighur man prays during Friday prayers inside the Altyn Mosque in Yarkand, in the region of Xinjiang, April ...
In the 13th century, a large number of Muslims from Central Asia to move into China, and with the local Han Chinese, Uighur and Mongolian fusion, in the long process of history through a variety of factors such as marriage, gradually formed a Hui. ...
Apple says China’s Uighur Muslims were targeted in the recent iPhone hacking campaign The tech giant gave a rare statement that bristled at Google’s analysis of the novel hacking operation. MIT Technology Review has learned that United States government surveillance independently spotted the Chaos ...
Beijing was quick to come aboard Bush's "war against international terror" not least since it, too, has been a victim of separatists who adopt terrorist means to push for an independent Islamic state of "East Turkistan" in Xinjiang province populated by Turkic -speaking Uighur Muslims. Only ...
WASHINGTON-- A member of the Uighur minority on Monday detailed torture and abuse she says she experienced in one of the internment camps where the Chinese government has detained hundreds of thousands of religious minorities. Mihrigul Tursun, speaking to reporters in Washington, said she was in...
“I heard from the officer in charge that it was related to very big matters and politics between Egypt and China,” said one Uighur student who reported being among dozens detained in Alexandria airport. “The officers told us you would be deported to China, and when you get there you wi...
native to the resource-rich region of Xinjiang on China’s border with Central Asia. Beijing blames rising strife in the region on Islamist terrorism and independence movements, while Uighur groups point to an influx of Chinese business interests and discriminatory employment and religious restrictions...