First, they came for the sheep. When the Chinese Communist Party sought to forcibly assimilate the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim minority group concentrated in Xinjiang province, into China’s ...

Five months ago, I left Radio Free Asia on furlough. Last week, my resignation became official. Like most of my colleagues, I made the difficult choice to leave when it became clear the Trump ...

All Abduweli Ayup wanted to do was start a school. He's a Uyghur linguist who specializes in Turkic languages. After years of studying abroad, he returned to his native China in 2011 and started ...

A small storefront on Oxford’s Beech Street has housed many restaurants over the years. The most recent addition, Arman Uyghur Restaurant, serves a type of food that many probably haven’t tasted: ...

The People’s Republic of China has erased a number of village names that are culturally significant to the Uyghur people, replacing them with communist language, according to a report from Human ...

China has secretly given a life prison sentence to a prominent Uyghur scholar of Uyghur culture and religion. In China, a Uyghur scholar has been sentenced to life in prison AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: One ...

June 19 (UPI) --The Council on American-Islamic Relations on Wednesday condemned what it says is China's ongoing attempt to "erase" its Muslim Uyghur culture after a Human Rights Watch report alleged ...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned on Wednesday Chinese authorities’ ongoing suppression of the Muslim community in Xinjiang. The civil rights and advocacy NGO accused the ...