updated Wed. March 13, 2024
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The Epoch Times
April 12, 2018
When news emerged last July that residents in Xinjiang, located in the northwestern frontiers of China, were required to install a surveillance app onto their mobile phones, it drew the attention of the Open Technology Fund (OTF), a U.S. government-funded program that researches and develops internetÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
April 12, 2018
Since April 2017, Uyghurs accused of harboring “strong religious views” and “politically incorrect” views have been jailed or detained in re-education camps throughout Xinjiang, where members of the ethnic group have long complained of pervasive discrimination, religious repression, and culturalÃâà...
Hindustan Times
April 11, 2018
Commuters planning a ride on the first metro line in the Chinese city of Urumqi in Xinjiang will have to show identification documents to buy tickets, the latest addition to a long list of intrusive restrictions in the restive region, according to rights activists. Though mandatory for long-distance train rides acrossÃâà...
Business Standard
April 10, 2018
Gilgit Baltistan, 10 APRIL, 2018: - Anger and distress against Chinese are brewing among families in Gilgit Baltistan following news being received of Uighur women in Xinjiang province being arrested. Xinjiang's proximity to Gilgit Baltistan has seen both of these regions sharing long historical, cultural andÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
April 5, 2018
Two U.S. lawmakers have called on U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad to visit northwest China's Xinjiang region and gather information on senior officials responsible for the mass surveillance and detention of ethnic Uyghurs to determine whether Washington should level sanctions against them.
South China Morning Post
April 3, 2018
The development in Xinjiang came as Beijing is trying to discipline the borrowing activities of local authorities and to curb illicit debt in various forms. The Central Economic and Financial Commission made clear on its first meeting on Monday that local governments and state-owned enterprises must cutÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 31, 2018
The Chinese government will spend 1.875 billion yuan (US$298.43 million) to improve irrigation systems in the heavily ethnic Uygur part of the violence-prone region of Xinjiang, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday. The government has increasingly turned its focus to development in southernÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 15, 2018
China has rolled out one of the world's most aggressive policing programmes in the Uygurs' homeland of Xinjiang, a vast region in the country's northwest. Chinese officials say the crackdown is necessary to stamp out a decades-long separatist movement and, more recently, Islamic extremism seeping intoÃâà...
South China Morning Post
March 13, 2018
Xinjiang deputy party secretary Zhu Hailun on Tuesday said the government would continue its campaign against separatists, and that the troubled far western region was “stable” thanks to its efforts. Speaking at the Xinjiang delegation meeting during the National People's Congress in Beijing, the deputyÃâà...
Global Times
March 8, 2018
Citizens of Urumqi, capital of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, ride the city's first subway line on Tuesday. The subway line is set for trial runs in June this year and will reduce travel time from the city center to the city's international airport to less than half an hour. The metro line runsÃâà...
Business Standard
March 7, 2018
China has allegedly detained dozens of Chinese Muslim women in its restive Xinjiang province, located in the north-western part of the country, for marrying Pakistani men belonging to Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region of Pakistan. This issue was addressed in a unanimously passed resolution of theÃâà...
New York Times
March 1, 2018
HONG KONG — The Chinese authorities have detained relatives of at least five reporters who covered an extensive crackdown in the Xinjiang region for Radio Free Asia, the United States-based broadcaster has said, raising questions about an intimidation and retaliation campaign. The five journalists allÃâà...
TIME
February 26, 2018
Unidentified sources inside Xinjiang described to Human Rights Watch the computer and mobile app interfaces of the IJOP software that tracks almost all citizens of the Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighur ethnic minority and stores detailed information including their travel history, prayer habits, the number ofÃâà...
Engadget
February 22, 2018
Nine years later, Xinjiang has seen the widespread implementation of sophisticated high-tech surveillance and monitoring technology, what BuzzFeed called "a 21st century police state." But what happens in Xinjiang does not stay in Xinjiang. The technologies piloted there are already spreading across allÃâà...
South China Morning Post
February 18, 2018
China's northwestern region of Xinjiang is planning a poverty relief scheme targeting its 22 poorest counties, state-run Xinhua reported on Sunday. Xinjiang, a huge region bordering Central Asia, has long been a security focus for Beijing, which has led a massive security clampdown there after deadlyÃâà...
DAWN.com
December 31, 1999
GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) through a unanimous resolution has called for the federal government to take urgent steps for the release of over 50 Chinese wives of GB men detained in neighbouring Xinjiang province of China. Over 50 citizens of GB, most of them affiliated withÃâà...
The Nation
December 31, 1999
The issue of the detention of the spouses of GB men in neighboring Xinjiang province of China, on suspicion of their links to religious extremist groups is an indicator of the latent volatility of the GB-Xinjiang annex and its implications for the future of CPEC and stability in the disputed province. GB is crucialÃâà...
