by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 16, 2014 | World
Beijing, Reuters—Chinese police have detained the country’s most high-profile Uighur academic, an outspoken critic of official policies in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, on suspicion of “breaking the law,” the government said on...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 17, 2013 | World
Beijing, AP—Eleven people were killed in an assault on a police station in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang, the local government said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks pointing to growing unrest in the area. Two auxiliary police officers and nine...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 13, 2013 | World
Beijing, Reuters—China’s far-flung western region of Xinjiang is demanding that lawyers guarantee family members don’t wear burqas or grow long beards, the latest government move critics say unfairly targets the region’s Muslim Uighur ethnic...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 30, 2013 | World
Beijing, AP—In a dusty outdoor curio market in China’s capital, traders from the minority Uighur community gathered Wednesday to swap stories about the omnipresent harassment they say they suffer at the hands of the police. That scrutiny has only intensified...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 29, 2013 | World
Beijing, AP—On Tuesday, Police investigating a vehicle that plowed through pedestrians and crashed at Beijing’s Forbidden City in an apparent suicide rampage, searched for information on two ethnic Uighur suspects believed to be linked to the attack, which...
