Human rights groups accuse China of widespread abuses of Uighurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority numbering about 10 million in its north-western region of Xinjiang. Beijing denies any abuses.

Lin Jian, spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, speaks at a press conference. China has confirmed the "repatriation" of 40 Uyghurs from Thailand back to the People's Republic. Johannes ...

China will take ‘good care’ of Uighurs, Thailand said after deporting them. This comes as 40 Uighur asylum seekers were repatriated to China after 10 years. China has a history of subjecting ...

BANGKOK - China has assured Thailand that 40 Uighurs it returned on Feb 27 would be looked after, Thailand’s Defence Minister said, confirming a secretive pre-dawn deportation that the UN and ...

Rights groups criticized the Thai government for sending the Uyghurs, a persecuted Muslim minority, back to China, where they face the risk of torture and imprisonment. By Sui-Lee Wee and David ...

A day after the resignation of Interim Government Adviser Md Nahid Islam, Mahfuj Alam has been appointed as the Adviser to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. A notification issued by the ...

East Turkestan — or Xinjiang, as it is known in Chinese — is a border region where ethnic minorities are subjected to the Chinese regime’s stifling repression. Subjected to arbitrary arrests and ...

The Chief of Army Staff, General Waker-Uz-Zaman, expressed his desire for the military to return to the cantonment after ensuring the country and its citizens are in a stable condition. He highlighted ...

Aziz Isa Elkun, from north London, spent seven years not knowing whether his mother was alive. The move comes after rights groups warned the Uyghurs face torture and possibly death back in China ...

BEIJING--Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uighur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world ...