A senior Chinese official with a background in water resources and ethnic affairs has been named as the new Communist Party ...

The traditions of Islam were once everywhere in Xinjiang. Religion was a pillar of Uyghur community life, and so were conservative customs – veils for women, beards for men.

The CCP created its infamous vocational skills education and training centers in Xinjiang, a disguise for what were extra-legal mass internment facilities. Anywhere from 2-3 million Uyghurs were ...

In 2014, the authorities had revised the Xinjiang religious regulations to extend state controls over Uyghurs’ online religious life, and to restrict what the authorities consider to be ...

Abdureqip Tormurniyaz says Muslims have the right to practice their religion in Xinjiang. Headlines.

The changes to the names of Xinjiang villages included removing mentions of religion, including terms such as “Hoja,” a title for a Sufi religious teacher, and “haniqa,” a type of Sufi ...

"Religious rights have long been restricted in Xinjiang," Bekzat Maksutkhan, the director of Naghyz Atazhurt, an unregistered organization in Kazakhstan focused on ethnic Kazakhs affected by the ...

Thomas Peter/Reuters While visiting Xinjiang in 2014, Xi warned of the “toxicity of religious extremism” and advocated for using the tools of “dictatorship” to eliminate Islamist extremism ...

(AP) — President Xi Jinping in 2016 called for the “Sinicization” of religions, initiating a crackdown that has largely concentrated on the western region of Xinjiang, home to more than 11 ...

Religious and Cultural Mentions Removed From Names of China's Xinjiang Villages, Rights Groups Say TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Authorities in China’s western Xinjiang region have been systematically ...