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 ...

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 ...

The tense exchange provided a fleeting glimpse of both the extremes of China’s restrictions on minority Uighurs (pronounced WEE’-gurs) and the resentment that simmers beneath the surface in their ...

BEIJING — More than 450 people were killed in China’s restive mainly Muslim Xinjiang region last year, a rights group said — with three times as many deaths among members of the Uighur minority than ...

WASHINGTON - On his way out the door, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has hit China with new sanctions by declaring that China’s policies on Muslims and ethnic minorities in western Xinjiang Province ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - His voice echoing inside a small blue-domed mosque, Mukhametzhar-haji speaks angrily about what he describes as China's brutality against his fellow Uighur Muslims in the riot-hit ...

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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - At a crowded press event on Friday in Beijing, Chinese officials aired a video of a thin Uighur man with a shaved head, wearing an oversized uniform and speaking directly to the ...

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 ...

The heat of the summer in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang has been punctuated once again by mass violence. In the oasis city of Hotan, authorities say rioters from the Uighur ethnic group ...