BEIJING (Reuters) - Uighurs from China's Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like ...

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 ...

BEIJING (AP) — A pair of trucks smashed through metal barriers and plowed through crowds of early morning shoppers Thursday in the far western city of Urumqi, capital of the volatile Xinjiang region, ...

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 ...

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On the streets of the cities and towns of China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang you can hear complaints from the Uighur minority group about restrictions on the Islamic religion they practice, their ...

* Uighurs in Kazakhstan express anger at treatment in China * Official demands investigation, seeks international help (Adds investigation) By Maria Golovnina ALMATY, July 19 (Reuters) - Thousands of ...

A Chinese court sentenced Ilham Tohti, an economist and prominent ethnic-rights campaigner, to life in prison, delivering an unusually harsh punishment for a scholar seen by many rights activists as a ...

FILE – In this Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, members of the Uighur community living in Turkey, some carrying flags of what ethnic Uighurs call ‘East Turkestan’, pray during a protest in Istanbul, ...

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A mass-terrorism spree in a southwestern Chinese city that killed at least 29 people was carried out by assailants from the northwestern region of Xinjiang, which is home to the Uighur ethnic minority ...