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 ...

China has sought for decades to restrict the practice of Islam and maintain an iron grip in Xinjiang, a region almost as big as Alaska where more than half the population of 24 million belongs to ...

The issue of the Uighur fighters was expected to be on the Syrian foreign minister's agenda when he visits China this week.

China has forcibly separated Uighur Muslim families by holding children in state orphanages, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The human rights group said children as young as five ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — More than a thousand Muslims marched to the heavily guarded Chinese Embassy in Indonesia's capital on Friday to protest China's treatment of its Uighur Muslims. The ...

BEIJING (AP) — China is discouraging some Uighur Muslims in the far west Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan. The government says the move is motivated by health concerns, but others say it is ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand sought on Friday to defuse international criticism of its decision to deport nearly 100 Uighur Muslims back to China, saying it had rejected a request from Beijing to ...

Nearly every week, new reports surface of Muslim Uighurs trying to flee China. They’ve been found in refugee camps in Thailand and caught with fake passports trying to board planes. This week, Chinese ...

Abdurehim Imin Parach often looks over his shoulder when he walks around Istanbul. He worries that he is being followed, just as he was last year when two Turkish plainclothes policemen escorted him ...