Uighur Muslims
US, allies push for UN rights body debate on Xinjiang abuses
By Jamey Keaten — September 26, 2022
(AP) — Human rights groups have accused China of sweeping a million or more people from Muslim minority groups into detention camps.
Even Congress can agree that we need to stop Uyghur genocide. Why can’t Elon Musk?
By Omar Suleiman — January 3, 2022
(RNS) — Planning a Tesla factory for Xinjiang is a new low, even for Tesla's CEO.
Global missionary efforts have taken a hit in the time of coronavirus
By Claire Giangravé — September 9, 2020
VATICAN CTY (RNS) — The COVID-19 pandemic saw a ‘large reduction’ in the realm of missionary work, aggravating an ongoing decline in the number of vocations and priests seeking to become missionaries.
Disney criticized for filming ‘Mulan’ in China’s Uighur region
By Juwan Park — September 9, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Disney is under fire for filming in Xinjiang, where the Chinese government has been accused of human rights abuses against predominantly Muslim minorities.
Trump’s limp response to Uighur persecution
By Mark Silk — July 14, 2020
(RNS) — The greatest abuse of religious liberty in the world today should incur a boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
On July 5, Uighurs remember 2009 violence that set Chinese crackdown in motion
By Aysha Khan — July 3, 2020
(RNS) — The uprising of July 5, 2009, and ensuing ethnic violence charted the way forward for China’s mass suppression of Uighurs over a decade later.
On Mother’s Day, young Uighurs ask: Where are our moms?
By Aysha Khan — May 8, 2020
RNS — Akida Pulat and other Uighurs suspect their parents have disappeared into this system. In a social media video they plan to publish on Sunday (May 10), she and over half a dozen young Uighurs around the world will demand the release of their mothers.
A daughter’s duty: From Boston, a Uighur woman champions her father’s release in China
By Aysha Khan — February 13, 2020
BOSTON (RNS) — Publisher Iminjan Seydin disappeared into a Chinese detention camp almost three years ago, before he was jailed on charges of inciting extremism. Now his daughter, a medical professional in Boston, is demanding that China release him.
China accuses US of double standards on anti-Muslim bigotry, counterterrorism
By Aysha Khan — December 12, 2019
(RNS) — Chinese officials are seeking to turn the tables on the White House, accusing the U.S. of hypocrisy due to its own long history of anti-Muslim discrimination.
‘Unmatched wickedness’: Reports allege child separation, organ harvesting against China’s Muslims
By Aysha Khan — July 9, 2019
(RNS) — A new report found that Chinese authorities are quickly building thousands of military-style full-time boarding schools for Uighur children whose parents are detained.
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