"Uighurs"

Twitter has locked the official account for the Chinese Embassy to the U.S. after a post that defended the Beijing government's policies in the western region of Xinjiang, where critics say China is engaged in the forced sterilization of minority Uighur women.

One Uighur was captured while six others are on the run after the seven broke out of a holding cell in Mukdahan province.

The following editorial appears in The Washington Post:

Yining, China - The Chinese state has come down not once, but twice, on Mayila Yakufu.

The Nation Thailand's Jintana Panyaarvudh offers an eyewitness account from China's 're-education camp' in Kashgar, Xinjiang

Re: “For independent evidence of China’s Muslim gulags, see here” and “Verdict already in on Tiananmen: Army guilty of mass murder”, Have Your Say, February 19.

A conflict is brewing in the Have Your Say section, concerning China’s treatment of Uighurs in its Xinjiang region. I detest China’s bullying policy on Taiwan and Tibet and its encroachment in the South China Sea.

Thailand is a key transit point for foreign refugees, but their treatment here depends on who’s chasing them

Six undocumented Uighurs are on the run after escaping from detention at the immigration office in the Northeast town of Mukdahan on Tuesday evening.

I nearly choked on my coffee this morning when I read the news that China’s vice foreign minister called Canada’s detention of Huawei’s chief financial officer “extremely egregious” and demanded that the US “immediately correct its wrong actions” in asking for her extradition.

Malaysia has freed 11 ethnic Uighur Muslims who escaped from immigration detention in Thailand, their lawyer said Friday, ignoring a request from Beijing to deport the group to China.

Detainees being investigated for links to Islamic state after escaping from Thailand