Pakistan, China’s closest ally in the Muslim world, openly criticized its treatment of its Uighur population, a majority-Muslim ethnic minority living in the western Chinese region in Xinjiang, earlier this week. It marks the strongest condemnation of China’s repression of the population yet. Noorul Haq Qadri, Pakistan’s federal minister for …

Sources report that the authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are secretly transferring Muslim Uyghurs to other prisons throughout China. The reasons for the transfer are thought to be a lack of capacity to host the vast amount of prisoners, prevention of unrest in Xinjiang and the creation of …

China’s ongoing mistreatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority continues to escape the headlines, including in Muslim-majority nations. Although the forced assimilation campaign targets the Uyghurs’ culture and religion amongst other human rights violations, they have received no support from other Muslim populations; common critics of Islamophobia and abuses against Muslim …

  Some local governments and institutes have posted notices in China’s restive Xinjiang province banning students and civil servants from taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Experts on the region say although the orders are not new, they run the risk of reinforcing recent tensions. …