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Chinese government figures show a steep rise in the number of people given lengthy prison sentences in Xinjiang from 2014, when Beijing’s crackdown on the region’s Muslim-majority Uyghurs ...
Beijing at first denied the existence of camps for Xinjiang’s Muslims. Now the party calls them “vocational education and ...
Letter from the U.K. A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in ...
Click to expand Image Available evidence also suggests that the vast majority of the 540,826 people prosecuted most likely remain in prison. Official statistics from the Xinjiang High People’s ...
Some people reported prison-like conditions ... that there were “vocational education and training centers” in Xinjiang. They publicly stated that the camps had two purposes: to teach Mandarin ...
Xinjiang, home to the Uyghur people, has become a sprawling open-air prison, where mass detentions, coercive assimilation, ...
India, Jan. 12 -- A Uyghur woman in China has been sentenced to 17 years in a Xinjiang prison for giving religious lessons to her two sons and a neighbour, media reports said. The woman was ...
Xinjiang's capital is around five hours by plane ... the highest security level applies. The prison was expanded from 15 to 28 buildings in 2018, at the height of the repression campaign.
The Chinese province has become a testing-ground for cutting-edge technological evil, as journalist John Beck shows in his grim new book ...
Many remain in prison. Who are the Uyghurs, and what’s happening to them in China? Such nuances are lost for the legions of domestic tourists who poured into Xinjiang this summer, part of a ...