FILE - A man and a woman walk past the Rebiya Kadeer Trade Center, center, on Sept. 6, 2009, in Urumqi, in China's western ...

"The future of Syria should be decided by the Syrian people," Chinese Embassy spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Newsweek.

Ferkat Jawdat, another Uyghur American advocate, expressed mixed emotions about the release. Jawdat has lobbied U.S.

During his address, Chinese representatives attempted to disrupt the session by falsely accusing the WUC of being a ...

The area is primarily home to the Uyghur people, a Turkic-speaking Muslim ethnic group, as well as other minority groups, such as Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and Tajiks. Geographically located in the far ...

Officially, the region is called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is part of China. With the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Xinjiang came under communist control ...

US-based research group IPVM claims to have uncovered evidence in patents filed by such companies that suggest facial recognition products were specifically designed to identify Uyghur people.

Uyghur language books are largely “non-existent,” Masimov said. “The more people read, the more books translated, the more the language is used, the more in tune it becomes.” Fewer than ...

BEIJING--A prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people’s folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison, according to a U.S.-based foundation that works on ...

The Canadian government has committed to bring in Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities who have fled repression in China ...

Under pressure to stop goods tied to human rights and environmental abuses from seeping into their supply chains, companies ...

The reference on Shein's website has since been removed. Getty Images It is alleged that Uyghur people are forced to pick cotton that supplies the global market The discriminatory job adverts ...