An Uyghur woman who was arrested in the middle of the night in China's Xinjiang region more than four years ago was sentenced to 14 years in prison for giving Islamic education to youngsters in her neighbourhood and hiding copies of the Quran.

Muslim woman sentenced for 14 years in China for teaching Islam, hiding Quran

Chinese technology giant Huawei is retroceding on a patent application it filed for a facial recognition system intended to identify Uyghurs from other Chinese ethnicities.

China’s Huawei backtracks after filing for patent of AI software that could recognise Uighurs

Huawei has worked with at least four partner companies to develop surveillance technologies that claim to monitor people by ethnicity, The Washington Post reported Saturday.

Uighur alarm: Huawei worked with companies to build tools that track people by ethnicity

China on Tuesday announced new rules for Muslims embarking upon the annual Haj pilgrimmage to Saudi Arabia. Stipulating that the pilgrimage should be organised only by the country's Islamic Association, Bejing has ordered Chinese Muslims not to oppose the regulations.

China announces new regulations for Muslims visiting Saudi Arabia for Haj

Regularly, the world hears of reports from various sources about China's atrocities on Muslim minority Uighurs, a community largely based in the region of Xinjiang.

After Uighurs, China targets religious identity of another Muslim minority