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A UN panel of experts says nearly one million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking minorities are being held in extrajudicial detention in camps in Xinjiang, where most of China’s more than 10 million Uighurs live. (Kyodo News/Getty Images)

Families of missing Uighurs demand ‘proof of life’ videos from China

After China released a video to show that an imprisoned poet is alive, family members of other missing Uighurs call for more of the same.

In a 55-page sworn affidavit, Meng said she has suffered from severe hypertension for years and has been treated in a Canadian hospital since her arrest. (Reuters)

China slams ‘inhumane’ treatment of Huawei executive

Meng’s arrest on December 1 has infuriated Beijing, rocking stock markets and raising tensions amid a truce in the US-China trade war

The Uighur people in Xinjiang

Riots in China’s troubled Xinjiang region kill 27

Unrest in China’s ethnically divided Xinjiang have left 27 people dead in the latest outbreak of violence in the troubled western region.

China denies 10 000 Uighurs have disappeared

China has denied claims by an exiled Uighur leader that 10 000 people disappeared following the riots in Urumqi, dismissing them as ”fabricated”.

Deadly Uighur riots may force policy debate in Beijing

The script is jarringly familiar. Bodies lie on streets of an ethnic minority area, troops fan out, and Beijing denounces overseas enemies.

Chinese go online to vent ire at Xinjiang unrest

Chinese are venting their anger online after ethnic unrest in the Muslim region of Xinjiang left at least 156 dead.

Xinjiang protests resume as death toll hits 156

Hundreds of Uighur clashed with police in the capital of China’s Muslim region of Xinjiang on Tuesday, two days after ethnic unrest left 156 dead.