Xinjiang: China bans Muslims from fasting in Ramadaan
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…
Scholars condemn mass detention of Muslim Uighurs,urge sanctions
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…
China launches anti-halaal campaign in Xinjiang
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…
Amnesty International calls on China to end “Systemic repression” against Uighur Muslims
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…
US ‘weighing’ China sanctions for treatment of Uighur Muslims
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.…
China accused of rights violations against Uighur Muslims
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…
China’s Hui Muslims fearful Chinese new year education ban a sign on curbs to come
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…
Chinese government collecting DNA samples blood type data from Uighur Muslims
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…
China’s Uighur Muslims struggle under ‘police state’
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,…