Muslims around the world celebrated Eid-al-Fitr this week, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. The month is normally observed through daily fasting, prayer, and community service, but in Xinjiang, many of these...
The government in Xinjiang has once again banned state employees, Party members, students, and...
Last week, the Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed “deep concern” to the Chinese...
At least 18 people were killed in Kashgar, Xinjiang when police responded to an attack by armed...
Following a series of official moves to undermine and stigmatize religious practice in the...
While addressing a meeting of religious representatives in Urumqi on Sunday, Zhang Chunxian, the...
Umar Farooq at Al Jazeera reports that the Chinese government’s efforts to ban observances...
With Saturday’s fifth anniversary of deadly riots in Urumqi approaching, and amid a steady...
For his latest contribution to his CDT series, cartoonist Crazy Crab of Hexie Farm responds to recent news that Chinese authorities are putting restrictions on the observance of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslim Uyghurs in...
As China continues to grow wary of its Muslim population amid a shifting dynamic in the Middle East, Foreign Policy’s Alexandra Evans details the crackdown on Ramadan currently underway in Xinjiang: Citing the need to...
The Los Angeles Times reports on the lengths that authorities went to in Xinjiang to ensure that the Muslim Uighur population there didn’t celebrate the holy month of Ramadan in August: In the aftermath of violent protests...
This next installment in the CDT series on important issues facing China in 2008 concerns the state of human rights in China. See also these previous China 2008 articles: China and the Developing World, Nationalism, Internet...
In addition to earlier accounts of fasting restrictions on Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang during Ramadan, Radio Free Asia reports that ethnic Uyghur government officials are being tested with offers of food at the workplace: Chinese...
CDT reported in an earlier post that Xinjiang Muslims are facing a security crackdown and fasting restrictions during the holy month of Ramadan. Earlier this month, Radio Free Asia also reported on several Ramadan restrictions...
Al-Jazeera has a report on the Ramadan crackdown ongoing in Xinjiang, including a ban on fasting for many segments of the population: Read more from Shanghaiist.
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