East Turkestan & the Uyghurs

China: Xinjiang government to 'clear up' ethnic names

Authorities in China's Xinjiang region have announced their intentions to "clear up" inconsistencies in the names of people from various ethnic groups by the end of the year.

Xinjiang Imposes Selective Fasting Ban Amid Terror Crackdown

Uighur men near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar

The government in Xinjiang has once again banned state employees, Party members, students, and minors from fasting during Ramadan.

CHINA: USCIRF Condemns the Government’s Ramadan Restrictions

Uyghur men walk in front of the Id Kah Mosque — China's largest mosque — in Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China.

As Muslims around the world mark the end of Ramadan with Eid al-Fitr celebrations, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) strongly condemns the Chinese government’s restrictions on Uighur and other Muslims’ religious practices.

Asia & Pacific In western China, authorities grapple with how to handle Ramadan

Id Kah is the most important mosque in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, home to China’s largest population of Muslims. (Emily Rauhala/The Washington Post)

It was the final Friday of Ramadan, an aching hour before dusk, and on the steps of Id Kah, the mosque that marks the heart of this ancient city, things were as they have always been — almost.

Ramazan in Xinjiang

THERE is some controversy surrounding reports that the Chinese government enforces strictures upon those who observe Islamic rituals, especially during the month of Ramazan, in Xinjiang, a region with a Uighur Muslim majority.

United Front Work Department Website Warns US Internet Company: Stop Providing Service to Tibetan and Uyghur Separatists!

Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department China Tibet Network website warns San Francisco-based Cloudflare company that cooperates with dominant Chinese search engine company Baidu that it should stop providing internet service to some websites run by Tibetans and Uigurs that the Chinese government considers to be separatist.