The brother of World Uyghur Congress president Dolkun Isa has been jailed for life by authorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), a police officer from the region told RFA. Hushtar Isa, based in Aksu (in Chinese, Akesu), was reportedly detained in 1998 and sentenced to...

Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained a woman in an internment camp on suspicion of “religious extremism” after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbors, according to authorities. While investigating the detentions of women...

The niece of prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup has been confirmed to have died while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to official sources....

A Uyghur academic director and prolific translator who is the brother of an RFA reporter has been sentenced to a lengthy prison following two years spent in an internment camp in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) for “religious extremism,” according to officials. Ahmetjan Juma,...

Ahtam Omer was targeted for sending his nephew to Egypt to study and sending him money there.

Restrictions on fasting during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan have eased in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in recent years, but residents continue to refrain from doing so, according to local authorities, suggesting a lingering fear of being branded an “extremist” and marked...

Munira Memtili was jailed for at least three years for “revealing state secrets” in her tearful account to a stranger.

Authorities in in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained the head of a township education committee, according to officials in his home county of Toksun (in Chinese, Tuokexun) in the region’s Turpan (Tulufan) prefecture.

Two brothers of RFA’s Uyghur Service editor Eset Sulaiman have been confirmed detained by authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), with other relatives believed held as part of what is seen as an intimidation campaign aimed at preventing him from reporting on...