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.
Meng’s arrest on December 1 has infuriated Beijing, rocking stock markets and raising tensions amid a truce in the US-China trade war
Unrest in China’s ethnically divided Xinjiang have left 27 people dead in the latest outbreak of violence in the troubled western region.
China has denied claims by an exiled Uighur leader that 10 000 people disappeared following the riots in Urumqi, dismissing them as ”fabricated”.
The script is jarringly familiar. Bodies lie on streets of an ethnic minority area, troops fan out, and Beijing denounces overseas enemies.
Chinese are venting their anger online after ethnic unrest in the Muslim region of Xinjiang left at least 156 dead.
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.