Ask a random Han Chinese about the Uighurs (Xinjiang's Muslim ethnic majority) and you will almost certainly learn that: (one) they sell drugs, (two) they carry concealed weapons and (three ...

On Thursday, around 40 men from the persecuted Uighur ethnic minority group in China were deported by Thai authorities after over a decade in the country. Citing local sources and a member of the ...

Rights advocates had said the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority in China, were “at real risk” of torture, imprisonment or even death if they were returned.

Recent clashes between anti-government groups and security forces in Syria have put the Alawite community in the spotlight.

For years, rights groups have been accusing China of widespread abuses, including mass detention of Uighurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority that numbers about 10 million in the western region of ...

Chinese authorities have moved to close a large number of mosques used by ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. In both the region capital of Urumqi and Kashgar in the western ...

The U.S.-based nonprofit linked some of the world’s largest car manufacturers to aluminum allegedly produced with forced labor by Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s western ...

A member of the Turkic Muslim Uighur ethnic group, he taught at Beijing’s Minzu University and was an outspoken critic of Beijing’s ethnic policies in the far western region of Xinjiang.

China plays down the significance of the mission, calling it a “normal law enforcement cooperation”. Read more at ...

The move confirms a secretive pre-dawn deportation that the UN and human rights groups condemned. Read more at straitstimes.com.