"This village name change campaign makes some Uyghurs ... Director of Global Advocacy at World Uyghur Congress. The U.N. further alleged that Uyghur people have been victims of torture and ...

The authorities also removed terms in village names that denote Uyghur cultural practices, such as mazar, shrine, and dutar, a two-stringed lute at the heart of Uyghur musical culture. While the ...

The Uyghur population of Xinjiang is around 11 ... to extract confessions to various crimes. “Door by door, village by village, township by township, people got arrested. This is the evidence ...

Officials in Beijing, however, soon deemed the gatherings a threat. In August 1995, key organizers were arrested, prompting protests in Ghulja. Authorities responded by banning Meshrep and cracking ...

China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur population and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the north-western region of Xinjiang.