A devastating sentence was handed down to Seylihan Rozi, a 49-year-old Uyghur woman from Kashgar’s Konasheher county. She’s ...

Rozi's sons got 10 and 7-year prison terms, while a neighbour, who also attended the lessons, received a 9-year sentence for ...

Uyghurs detained in Thailand over a decade ago say the Thai government is preparing to deport them to China; activists say ...

The Human Rights Foundation HRF marked the 11th anniversary of the unjust detention of Ilham Tohti a Uyghur professor who has been enduring a life sentence f ...

The Uyghurs were detained after arriving in Thailand ten years ago on their way to Turkey. They were reportedly forced to ...

Recent longform pieces have detailed the journeys of Uyghurs who managed to escape Xinjiang and flee abroad ... Monday of his sentencing to life in prison, Marie Holzman writes at the online ...

In California, qualifying inmates volunteer as firefighters to assist in combating wildfires in Los Angeles. China uses ...

The Uyghurs are a Turkic, majority Muslim ethnicity native to China’s far west Xinjiang region ...

Rozi's sons got 10 and 7-year prison terms, while a neighbour, who also attended the lessons, received a 9-year sentence for "illegal religious education." China has sentenced a 49-year-old Uyghur ...

She's been sentenced to 17 years in a Xinjiang prison for teaching religious verses to her sons and a neighbour, deemed "illegal underground religious activities" by Chinese authorities ...

This harsh sentence is part of a broader crackdown on religious expression in Xinjiang, where Uyghurs are increasingly penalized for practising their faith. Rozi's sons also received prison ...