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

The United States is about to announce a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, escalating tensions between the world's two largest economies, CNN reports.

United States to declare diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics: Report

A senior official sanctioned by the US, the UK, the EU, and Canada for his participation for alleged human rights violations in China's far western Xinjiang region has been promoted to the top post in Tibet.

China: CPC official sanctioned for human rights violations to head Tibet's party unit

Thousands of people escaped China's cultural revolution in the 1960s. That number decreased as the country stabilised. However, the number of Chinese nationals leaving the country to settle in another country is fast increasing once more.

The great exodus from China: Under Xi Jinping, asylum seekers number shoots up over 600,000

Apple said Monday that it had placed a key assembler of its iPhones on probation after the Taiwanese company was found to have concealed violations of labor rules for students employed at its factories in China.

Apple puts key contractor on probation over labour abuses in China

Kashgar, a remote city in China’s in the north-western region of Xinjiang detected more than 100 asymptomatic Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the regional health authority said.

New coronavirus outbreak detected in China's Kashgar city

The United Kingdom government is considering proposals put forth by members of parliament to allow Uighurs and other Muslim minorities to file a petition in the high court against the genocide taking place in the Xinjiang region of China, according to media reports.

UK government mulls proposal to allow Uighurs to file plea in High Court against genocide in China

US tech giant Apple has reportedly imported clothes -- uniform for staff in stores -- from a company facing US sanctions over forced labour in China’s western Xinjiang region, The Guardian report said quoting shipping records.

Apple imported clothes from Chinese company facing US forced labour sanctions: Report

In China, it looks like the life has returned back to normal and the battle against coronavirus has been won with workers back in factories, trains back on platforms and the ports filled with containers.

Coronavirus cluster in China's Xinjiang could spread in Uighur concentration camps

Thousands of protesters marched in support of China’s Uighur Muslims in Istanbul, voicing their solidarity with the footballer Mesut Ozil. Earlier in a post on Twitter, the Arsenal midfielder called Uighurs ''warriors who resist persecution'', while calling out China's treatment of Uighur Muslims in the detention camps of Xinjiang.

Protesters chant 'murderer China' in Istanbul to support Uighur Muslims after Mesut Ozil speaks out

UN ambassadors from 37 countries, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, have released a letter defending China's "contribution to the international human rights cause" in the Xinjiang region, in direct response to Western criticism earlier this week.

37 countries, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, defend China in UN letter over Xinjiang

Their Uighur wives vanished in 2017, swept up in a Chinese dragnet tackling Islamic extremism, now they've been released — but the Pakistani husbands left behind say freedom has come at a price: The women must prove their "adaptability to Chinese society", and publicly sacrifice their religious ideals.

Uighur wives forced to drink alcohol and eat pork in China’s ‘re-education’ camps

China is under EU scanner on Uighur Muslims

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