The Uyghur population of Xinjiang is around 11 million, along with around four million people from other Turkic ethnic minorities. As such, the data likely represents only the tip of the iceberg.

Isolated in remote Xinjiang, their historical homeland in ... reverberates with a familiar pain,” Rayhan Asat, a Uyghur human-rights lawyer, recently wrote on the website of Dawn, an ...

This harsh sentence is part of a broader crackdown on religious expression in Xinjiang, where Uyghurs are increasingly penalized for practising their faith. Rozi's sons also received prison ...

BANGKOK — A group of Uyghur men who were detained in Thailand ... majority Muslim ethnicity native to China’s far west Xinjiang region. After decades of conflict with Beijing over ...

In this preview of a full Zoom In Zoom Out interview, Uyghur-American lawyer Nury Turkel shares how he was reunited with his mother following her release from persecution by China in Xinjiang.

Human Rights Watch research has identified about 630 villages in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region where the names have been altered to reflect Chinese government propaganda words ...

which restricts the import of goods tied to what the U.S. describes as China's human-rights abuses and ongoing genocide in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. U.S. authorities say Chinese ...

particularly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The region is infamous for its controversial cotton production practices. The campaign group insists these allegations should ...

A devastating sentence was handed down to Seylihan Rozi, a 49-year-old Uyghur woman from Kashgar's Konasheher county. She's been sentenced to 17 years in a Xinjiang prison for teaching religious ...