China police kill four over Xinjiang attack: state media
- 28-Dec-2016
BEIJING: Chinese police have shot dead four people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said. The four “rioters” drove up to a local party office in Moyu County and “detonated (an) explosive device”, killing one person and injuring three others, the official Xinhua news agency […]
China’s Xinjiang residents must submit DNA for passports
- 07-Jun-2016
BEIJING: Residents of a border district in China's mostly Muslim region of Xinjiang must now provide DNA samples when applying for passports, according to official local media.
Afghans arrested Chinese Uighurs to aid Taliban talks bid: officials
- 21-Feb-2015
KABUL: Afghanistan arrested and handed over several Muslim Uighur militants from China's west in an effort to persuade China to use its influence with Pakistan to help start negotiations with the Taliban, Afghan security officials said on Friday.
China sentences 113 on terror crimes in Xinjiang
- 30-Jun-2014
Courts in China’s western Xinjiang region have sentenced 113 people to jail terms ranging from 10 years to life for terrorist activities and other crimes, the Xinjiang government said, the latest in a slew of prosecutions targeting militant separatism. The sentences come after Beijing has vowed to crack down on religious extremists and separatist groups, […]