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China’s Uighur Muslims Struggle Under ‘police State’

Worshippers quietly passed through metal detectors as they entered the central mosque in China's far western city of...

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Chinese Official ‘demoted For Not Smoking In Front of Muslims’

A Chinese official who allegedly declined to smoke in front of Muslims in Xinjiang has been demoted for taking an...

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Xinjiang Ban On Long Beards and Veils

China has introduced new restrictions in the far western region of Xinjiang in what it describes as a campaign against...

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China’s Xinjiang Cracks Down On Muslim Practices In…

China has announced bans on beards and burkas in its remote violence-wracked Xinjiang region as part of tighter...

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Bloody Islamic State Video Puts China In Cross-Hairs

Islamic State militants from China's Uighur ethnic minority have vowed to return home and "shed blood like rivers",...

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Chinese Police In Restive Xinjiang To Track Cars By GPS

A prefecture in China's restive Xinjiang region has ordered all vehicles to be equipped with GPS-like tracking...

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Eight Killed In Knife Attack In China’s Xinjiang

Eight people were killed in a knife attack on a crowd in China's restive Xinjiang region, including three assailants...

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Some Uighurs Fighting and Dying In Syria

An exiled advocate for China's ethnic Uighur minority said Monday that some of the group were fighting and dying in...