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Philippines, 36 other countries defend China over Xinjiang in UN letter

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 13 03:25 AM

Echoing China's defense of the camps, Friday's letter described internment sites as "vocational education and training centers." Read more »

Fake tourists and car crashes: How China blocks reporters in Xinjiang

Eva Xiao, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 27 11:28 AM

The 3 men were so busy staging a fake car crash they failed to notice the very people they were trying to block: foreign journalists heading towards one of China's notorious internment camps. Read more »

China tells Turkey to support its fight against Uighur militants

Reuters
Posted at May 17 01:52 PM

BEIJING - China has called on Turkey to support its fight against militants operating in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, following criticism from Turkey about rights in a part of China heavily populated by a Turkic, mostly Muslim people. Read more »

China's social media troll 'army' wages war on Uighurs

Elizabeth Law, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 07 12:53 PM

BEIJING, China - The Chinese troll army suddenly struck one evening, bombarding the Facebook pages of two pro-Uighur groups with an array of verbal grenades and offensive images. Read more »

China denounces US 'concentration camps' remarks

Reuters
Posted at May 06 05:37 PM

BEIJING - China denounced the United States on Monday for accusing it of operating concentration camps for Muslims in its far western region of Xinjiang, saying the accusations were divorced from reality. Read more »

Xinjiang surveillance app targets legal, everyday behavior: rights group

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 02 09:19 AM

HONG KONG - Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in Xinjiang by labeling "completely lawful" behavior as suspicious, a Human Rights Watch report said Thursday. Read more »

Campuses not camps: China defends Xinjiang policies at UN

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 16 08:46 PM

China on Friday flatly rejected criticism of mass detainment of Muslim minorities in its restive Xinjiang region, insisting it has set up "campuses", not camps, in a bid to counter radicalization. Read more »

US says China's treatment of Muslim minority worst abuses 'since the 1930s'

Lesley Wroughton and David Brunnstrom, Reuters
Posted at Mar 14 05:12 AM

WASHINGTON - The US State Department on Wednesday slammed human rights violations in China, saying the sort of abuses it had inflicted on its Muslim minorities had not been seen "since the 1930s." Read more »

China says Xinjiang has 'boarding schools', not 'concentration camps'

Michael Martina, Reuters
Posted at Mar 12 10:27 PM

BEIJING - China is running boarding schools not concentration camps in the far western region of Xinjiang, its governor said on Tuesday, as the United States called conditions there “completely unacceptable”.   Read more »

From camps to factories: Muslim detainees say China using forced labor

Christopher Rickleton, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Mar 04 01:12 PM

ALMATY, Kazakhstan - As Gulzira Auelkhan toiled stitching gloves in a factory in China's troubled Xinjiang region, her managers made no secret of where her production would be sold. Read more »

China approves $6 billion airport expansion in Xinjiang's Urumqi

Reuters
Posted at Nov 19 12:56 PM

Construction will run through 2030 when the expanded Urumqi airport in Xinjiang is expected to handle 63 million passengers and 750,000 tonnes of cargo a year. Read more »

China faces grilling over internment camps at UN review

Eva Xiao, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 04 11:52 AM

China will be grilled over its mass detainment of Uighur minorities during a UN human rights review on Tuesday, with Washington leading demands for Beijing to come clean on how many people are held in a sprawling network of camps. Read more »

Inside China's internment camps: tear gas, Tasers and textbooks

Ben Dooley, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 24 03:15 PM

Thousands of guards equipped with tear gas, Tasers, stun guns and spiked clubs keep tight control over "students" in facilities ringed with razor wire and infrared cameras, according to the documents. Read more »

Report: Wade offered $25M over three years by Chinese team

Field Level Media/Reuters
Posted at Jul 25 09:27 AM

With his NBA future still undecided, Dwyane Wade is apparently being courted heavily by teams in the Chinese Basketball Association.   Read more »

US journalists fear China detained their families

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 30 08:08 AM

BEIJING - When American journalist Gulchehra Hoja and her colleagues first began exposing a secretive network of reeducation centers in China's far west, they never imagined that their families might one day end up in one. Read more »

Ghost cities haunt stability dream in far west China

Ben Dooley, Agence France Presse
Posted at Sep 03 05:35 PM

KASHGAR, China - The future of economic development in China's far western Xinjiang region lies behind the shattered glass door of a welcome centre on the outskirts of the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar. Read more »

Earthquake of magnitude 6.6 hits northwest China's Xinjiang

Reuters
Posted at Aug 09 08:45 AM

SHANGHAI - An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 hit a remote part of China's far northwestern region of Xinjiang on Wednesday morning, the country's earthquake administration said. Read more »

China's Xinjiang offers leniency for 'terrorists' who turn themselves in

Reuters
Posted at Mar 15 01:52 PM

BEIJING - Authorities in China's western region of Xinjiang on Tuesday offered leniency to "separatists, terrorists and religious extremists" who turn themselves in, the latest in a string of recent security measures in the violence-prone region. Read more »

Five dead in attack in China's Xinjiang

Reuters
Posted at Dec 29 09:43 AM

BEIJING - Attackers drove a car into a government building in China's unruly far western region of Xinjiang on Wednesday and set off an explosive device killing one person, while all four of the attackers were shot dead, the regional government said. Read more »

6.5 quake hits China's Xinjiang region, one dead

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 26 08:16 AM

BEIJING, China - A powerful 6.5-magnitude quake rocked a mountainous area of far western China Friday night, with one person killed when a house collapsed in a region often plagued with seismic activity. Read more »