An award-winning Chinese photographer, who focussed on social, health and environmental issues in China, has been detained in Xinjiang. read more

New Delhi and Beijing will consider linking up military headquarters and regional commands with hotlines during the Defence Secretary level dialogue next Tuesday in an attempt to prevent any adventurism along the 3,488 kilometre Line of Actual Control... read more

“We have lodged strong protests with China and Pakistan on the proposed bus service that will operate through Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir under so-called ‘China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’,” said external affairs ministry spokesperson. read more

China says it is fighting terrorism in Xinjiang but in accordance with UN norms but Uyghur rights groups allege they were forcing the community to give up their religious and cultural identity and demand Beijing must allow foreign media to visit the... read more

Only last week China sought to legalise the camps as “vocational training institutes”, where inmates influenced by religious extremism will be reeducated and transformed. read more

Senior Communist party leader You Quan speaks of ‘sinicisation’ in northwestern region of Xinjiang. read more

Until last month, Beijing had denied the existence of the camps in the face of mounting criticism that said that the hundreds of thousands of Uyghur men and women had been interned without any legal recourse. read more

Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive. They left the kids with their grandmother at home in China when they went to nurse Meripet’s sick father in Turkey. But after Chinese authorities started locking up ethnic Uighurs for alleged subversive crimes such as travel abroad, a visit became exile.

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Li Xiaojun, director for publicity at the Bureau of Human Rights Affairs of the State Council Information Office, said the Chinese education centres were not “detention centres or re-education camps”, which he dismissed as “the trademark product of eastern... read more

Authorities in recent months have ratcheted up pressure on religious groups, destroying crosses, burning bibles, shutting churches and ordering followers to renounce their faith. read more

Last week, Gay McDougall, vice-chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination told the UN panel there were deep concerns about Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) being turned into a “massive internment camp”. read more

A United Nations human rights panel said that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy.” read more

UN human rights panel said that it had received many credible reports to back the claim that people from the Muslim Uyghur community were being sent to these camps in the name of fighting religious extremism. read more

Over 8,700 houses, farmland, roads, railway lines and power and telecommunication facilities were damaged in the floods that have wreaked havoc in China since early this week. read more

The $50-billion worth China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is understood to have hit a roadblock with many of its projects getting stuck due to a financial crisis at the country’s National Highway Authority, according to a media report. read more