03 May 2019| 27 Shabaan 1440| Al Jazeera China has banned civil servants, students and teachers in its mainly Muslim Xinjiang region from fasting during Ramadan and ordered restaurants to stay open. Most Muslims are required to fast from dawn to ...
27 November 2018| 19 Rabi ul Awwal 1440| Arab News Countries must hit China with sanctions over the mass detention of ethnic Uighurs in its western Xinjiang region, hundreds of scholars said on Monday, warning that a failure to act ...
10 October 2018|30 Muharram 1440 Chinese authorities have launched a campaign against halal products in the capital of Xinjiang, the fractious northwest region where Muslims are facing a raft of religious restrictions. Halaal, Arabic for permissible, refers to a set of rules ...
25 September 2018|15 Muharram 1440|Al Jazeera Amnesty International has called on China to end its campaign of “systematic repression” against Uighur Muslims and demanded information about what has happened to those in detention. Organisations including the UN and Humans Rights Watch (HRW) ...
12 September 2018|02 Muharram 1440|Al Jazeera The Trump administration is considering sanctions against China over its treatment of the predominantly Muslim Uighur minority, according to reports in the US media. A New York Times story on Monday cited former and current officials ...
11 September 2018|01 Muharram 1440|Anadolu Agency Human Rights Watch is blaming the Chinese government for a “systematic campaign of human rights violations” against Uighur Muslims in northwestern Xinjiang, an autonomous region in the country. According to a 117-page report published over the ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 19 February 2018| 03 Jumadul Ukhra 1439 For some in China’s ethnic Hui Muslim minority here, a recent ban on young people engaging in religious education in mosques is an unwelcome interference in how they lead their ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 14 December 2017| 25 Rabi ul Awal 1439 A Human Rights Watch investigation found the Chinese government is gathering DNA samples, fingerprints, eye scans, and blood types of millions of Muslims in Xinjiang From DNA samples to iris ...
Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 14 July 2017| 19 Shawaal 1438 Public signs say no one is permitted to pray in public or grow a beard before the age of 50, while government employees are forbidden from fasting during Ramadan Worshippers quietly passed ...
