The Guardian's Lily Kuo reports on recently emerged drone footage of hundreds of blindfolded and shackled prisoners being led from a train by police. The footage, which was posted on YouTube last week, is believed to have been...
Authorities in Xinjiang have detained an estimated one million or more Turkic Muslims in...
Thousands of Hui Muslims gathered at the Weizhou Grand Mosque in Ningxia last week in an attempt...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
In 2014, Beijing launched a "people's war on terror" in response to increasing incidents of...
U.S.-based democracy and human rights advocacy group Freedom House this week released the report...
2muslim.com (中穆网, also known as Zhongmu), a popular online community for members of the Hui ethnic...
As members of the predominately Muslim Uighur ethnic minority have found increased restrictions on...
Authorities in Xinjiang have since May 2014 been waging a "war on terror" in response to mounting...
The Hui ethnic minority, descendants of Silk Road traders who settled and married in China, look...
With violent attacks on the rise in Xinjiang, much debate surrounds the underlying causes of...
At China File, Kathleen McLaughlin describes China's women-led mosques which, having weathered varying fortunes since the 17th Century, are now struggling to compete with the growing range of opportunities for young Hui Muslims...
Radio Free Asia is reporting on a riot sparked by tensions between Han Chinese and Hui Muslims in Ningjin County, Shandong: Villagers in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong said on Thursday that local police "stood by and...
A clash erupted between police and Muslims trying to defend their mosque from demolition in Ningxia, Reuters reports: Fighting between police and members of the largely Muslim Hui ethnic group broke out on Friday in Ningxia...
New Year's celebrations took a violent turn in the monastery town of Tongren in Qinghai Province, Reuters reports. A dispute over the price of balloons in an ethnically Tibetan town in western China sparked a clash between...
From the Washington Post: Nestled mid-slope in the foothills of China’s second-poorest province, Dacitan is a village run almost entirely by women, mothers who work the potato and wheat fields while their husbands are away. Seventy miles to the east, perched on a remote mountain ridge above a collapsing dirt road, Sale is thick with […]
From Reuters, via The Washington Post (link): Ishmael is a big fan of Osama bin Laden. “He is a hero,” he said, stroking his beard. “He is a good Muslim.” Maybe not such a strange comment to hear from a Muslim in Iraq or Saudi Arabia, but Ishmael is a Chinese citizen who lives in […]
From Pacific News Service: At a time when Islamic populations around the world are under increased scrutiny, the Chinese Hui are often confused in the Western media with China’s second-largest Muslim minority, the restive Uighurs, an ethnically distinct group concentrated in China’s Central-Asian Xinjiang province. Chafing under Chinese rule, the Uighurs have given the Chinese […]
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