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Facebook said the objective of the phishing scam was to lure Uyghur audiences into clicking on false content links — either from a computer or smartphone — to infect the device with malware.

Chinese Hackers Made Fake Facebook Profiles, Apps To Spy On Uyghur Activists

8:15pm March 24, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

"This activity had the hallmarks of a well-resourced and persistent operation, while obfuscating who's behind it," Facebook said, adding that the malware spread to about 500 people in seven countries.

The National Speed Skating Oval, also known as the Ice Ribbon, is the venue for speed skating events at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Opinion: Olympic Flame Of Suffering

7:54am January 30, 2021

by Scott Simon

With the Winter Olympics set for next year, NPR's Scott Simon talks about the push by some human rights groups to move the games out of Beijing.

An ethnic Hui Muslim man stands in front of Laohuasi Mosque in Linxia, Gansu province, in 2018. Chinese Muslims are most densely clustered in the northwestern regions of Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang, but live across the country, as they have for more than

China Targets Muslim Scholars And Writers With Increasingly Harsh Restrictions

7:56am November 21, 2020

by Emily Feng

The intellectual heart of China's Muslim community is under threat as scholars, writers, religious leaders and their families are under constant state surveillance.

A guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region in December 2018.

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Report: Satellite Images Reveal Suspected Detention Sites In China's Xinjiang Region

6:49pm September 24, 2020

by Laurel Wamsley

The centers have apparently been built and expanded since 2019, even as Chinese officials claimed most of the ethnic Uighurs and others sent to the facilities had "returned to society."

Attendants refill teacups as Chen Quanguo (center), Communist Party secretary of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, listens to a speaker during a group discussion meeting on the sidelines of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the

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U.S. Sanctions Chinese Officials, Including Politburo Member, For Xinjiang Abuses

3:40pm July 09, 2020

by John Ruwitch

The Trump administration's penalties are meant to punish China for its treatment of Uighurs and Muslim minorities in the region, and target a Politburo member for the first time.

In this October 2018 photo U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (left) shakes hands with State Councilor Yang Jiechi, China's top diplomat, in Beijing. The two met Wednesday in Hawaii as relations between the U.S. and China continue to deteriorate.

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Pompeo And China's Top Diplomat Meet In Hawaii As Relations Worsen

2:30pm June 18, 2020

by John Ruwitch

Neither the U.S. nor China publicly announced the meeting in advance and it was not clear which side had proposed it.

Ten-year-old Nurzat (right) and his friends, brothers Abdulla (left), 11, and Muhammet (center), 10, look out the window of their dormitory room at a boarding school in Istanbul, Turkey. The boys are all missing their parents, who are believed to be in pr

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'Somewhere Like Home': Uighur Kids Find A Haven At Boarding School In Turkey

8:47am March 15, 2020

by Joanna Kakissis

Their parents are missing back home in China, likely in prison or detention. "We want them to know they belong to a family that's much bigger than the one they have lost," the school's founder says.

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Uighur writer and poet Abdurehim Imin Parach stands in the Zeytinburnu neighborhood of Istanbul. He has been detained twice by Turkish authorities. NPR spoke to more than a dozen Uighurs in Istanbul who detailed how Turkish police arrested them and sent t

'I Thought It Would Be Safe': Uighurs In Turkey Now Fear China's Long Arm

7:25pm March 13, 2020

by Joanna Kakissis

Once viewed as a refuge by members of the Muslim minority group, Turkey has detained Uighurs and told them to hush criticism about the Chinese government. Some have already been deported.

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China has responded with swift condemnation after the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill targeting its mass crackdown on ethnic Muslim minorities. The bill decries what China describes as educational centers and the U.S. says are detention facil

China Rebukes House Bill Condemning Crackdown On Uighurs

4:12pm December 04, 2019

by Merrit Kennedy

The bill, which passed on Tuesday night in a 407-1 vote, condemns Beijing's treatment of the Muslim minority in Western China. It comes days after a measure supporting Hong Kong protesters.

Serikjan Bilash (left), co-founder of Atajurt, and wife Leila Adilzhan in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Per the terms of a plea deal, Bilash can't work in political activism for the next seven years, which includes calling out China's repression of Kazakhs.

An Advocate For Kazakhs Persecuted In China Is Banned From Activism In Kazakhstan

11:52am October 26, 2019

by Emily Feng

Serikjan Bilash signed a plea deal after Kazakh officials charged him with "inciting ethnic tensions" for his work documenting repression against Kazakhs and in China's Xinjiang region.