Aytursun regularly attends neighborhood gatherings and has been active in sharing the food and customs of her native land. One of her favorite Uyghur foods to introduce is laghman, a savory ...

BANGKOK - United Nations human rights experts have urged Thailand not to send 48 Uyghurs in its custody back to China, warning they are at risk of torture, ill-treatment and "irreparable harm" if ...

Forty-eight Uyghurs detained in Thailand for almost 11 years are on hunger strike to protest against imminent deportation to China, where they face imprisonment or execution. They were caught by ...

Thailand said on Wednesday that it was not planning to immediately repatriate a group of Uyghurs who fled China more than 10 years ago. UN experts had warned that they could face torture on their ...

At the time, more than 1 million Uyghur and other Muslim minority peoples were estimated to be held in extrajudicial camps for “re-education” and indoctrination. Descriptions of detentions ...

and the Chinese government has taken a multitude of steps that in effect have been diluting the Uyghur’s ethnicity and culture. Their land, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is technically ...

Niluper says she has been living in agony. A Uyghur refugee, she has spent the past decade hoping her husband would join her and their three sons in Turkey, where they now live. The family was ...

Jan. 19, 2025 Dozens of Uyghur men who fled persecution in their native China only to find themselves detained in Thailand have entered the second week of a hunger strike in Bangkok. Their fast is ...