BEIJING (AP) — China has responded furiously to a United Nations report on alleged human rights abuses in its northwestern Xinjiang region targeting Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim ethnic minorities.

Besh pede,” a popular Uyghur folk ballad, is among dozens of Uyghur-language songs that have been deemed “problematic” by ...

China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a ...

BEIJING, Sept. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from China.org.cn on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: On September 25th, a grand gathering in ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The different ethnic groups who live in China's violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang should make friends with each other to improve trust between them, the Chinese ...

While visiting the Uyghur-populated region, Chinese leader Xi Jinping hailed his ethnic autonomy policies and urged a joint effort for a "beautiful Xinjiang." But analysts and an exiled Uyghur tell a ...

ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- Police in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, have blocked five Kazakh men and women from approaching the Chinese Consulate, where they planned to demand the release of their ...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese courts in the far west, ethnic region of Xinjiang have imprisoned 113 people for terrorism or other charges, according to a government-run news portal. Regional courts in the ...

Generations of Uighurs, the Turkic ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, have played it at parties and weddings. But today, if they download it, play it or share it online, they risk ending up ...