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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 573

Chinese Muslims

A Jewish man who identified himself as Andrew protests the oppression of China's Uighurs outside the Chinese Embassy in London, January 5, 2020. (David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE)
March 4, 2021, 3:57 am
In Britain, Jews lead fight against oppression of China’s Uighur Muslims
All denominations of UK Jewry join extraordinary effort on issue hitting close to home, as leaders take unusual step of invoking Holocaust and chief rabbi pens rare political op-ed
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a police station is seen by the front gate of the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. Confidential documents, leaked to a consortium of news organizations, lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities to rewire their thoughts and the language they speak. (AP Photo/File)
November 25, 2019, 12:50 am
Secret documents reveal how China’s mass detention camps for Muslims work
Leaks lay out Beijing’s deliberate strategy to surveil and lock up minorities, mostly Uighurs, to rewire their thoughts and the language they speak; China calls papers ‘fake news’
By AP
This photo taken on March 18, 2019 shows Muslim men praying at a mosque in Beijing. (GREG BAKER / AFP)
March 28, 2019, 2:52 pm
China slams US criticism of Muslim treatment as ‘absurd’
After Pompeo calls for end of persecution of Uyghurs, Beijing accuses Washington of internal meddling and spreading ‘malicious accusations’
By AFP
In this August 20, 2018, photo, Meripet, 29, prays at her home in Istanbul, Turkey. Meripet came to Turkey in February 2017 to visit her sick father, leaving four children behind. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)
September 25, 2018, 12:09 pm
China removes children from families in effort to subdue Muslim minority
Kids are systematically taken from ethnic Uighur and sent to orphanages or boarding schools in what the locals say is an attempt to erase their culture, language
By Yanan WANG and Dake Kang
This undated photo released by the Turkistan Islamic Party, a militant website, shows fighters from the group at an unknown location in Syria. (Turkistan Islamic Party website via AP)
April 23, 2017, 1:49 am
Chinese jihadis’ rise in Syria raise concerns at home
Organized, battle-hardened and numbering in the thousands, members of the Turkistan Islamic Party have fought in the ranks of al-Qaeda, Islamic State and other extremist groups
By Gerry Shih and Bassam Mroue
In this undated photo released by Turkistan Islamic Party, a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Turkistan Islamic Party holds their weapons, at unknown place in Syria. ( Militant Website Turkistan Islamic Party via AP)
April 22, 2017, 4:05 pm
Chinese jihadis’ rise in Syria raises concerns at home
They are organized, battled-hardened and instrumental in ground offensives against Assad’s forces
By Gerry Shih and Bassam Mroue
This photo taken on February 27, 2017 shows Chinese military police attending an anti-terrorist oath-taking rally in Hetian, northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. (AFP Photo/STR)
March 13, 2017, 11:30 am
Chinese officials express jitters over jihadi threat
Xinjiang regional leaders say country has become destabilized by ‘international anti-terror situation,’ call for a ‘people’s war’
By Gerry Shih
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