Uighur in a sentence

Beijing has also imposed various restrictions on the use of the Uighur language and has started razing monuments of the Uighur culture and religious buildings; it also recently the use of Muslim and Arabic symbols across the country.

The Uighurs in Kashgar under Yūsuf and his older brother Jahān Khoja of Yarkand revolted in 1754 against the Dzungars, but Jahān was taken prisoner by the Dzungars after he was betrayed by the Uch-Turfan Uighur Xi-bo-ke Khoja and Aksu Uighur Ayyūb Khoja.

There are actual genocides in the world: China is clearly committing one in Xinjiang against the Uighur minority there.

In fact, he’s the only Uighur who as a public intellectual can stand up and speak out.

Since winning power, Mr Lammy has backtracked on plans to pursue legal routes to declare China's crackdown on Uighur Muslims in Xinjinag as a 'genocide'.

A jovial Uighur tractor driver-turned-fruit merchant, the proud father considered his seven children a blessing from God.

A lone Uighur man walks to a mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang, in August last year.

A Uighur student in the kingdom told AFP that three of his friends deported since late 2016 have become “untraceable” after arriving in China, likely now in the so-called re-education camps that Beijing says are meant to counter extremism.

Beijing (AP) — For decades, the Uighur imam was a bedrock of his farming community in China’s far west.

But in just three years, new measures have caused the birth rate in Xinjiang’s Uighur-majority areas to plunge, and it is now well under the national average.

China has come under scrutiny over its treatment of Uighur Muslims and claims of alleged forced-labour abuses in Xinjiang, where the United Nations cites credible reports as saying one million Muslims held in camps have been put to work.

Despite Khan’s outcry at the treatment of Muslims worldwide, Pakistan has not criticized China’s assault on its Muslim minority Uighur population.

Earlier this month, the UK government said there was 'credible, growing and troubling' evidence of forced labour among Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.

Four companies were also targeted for assisting China’s drive to map citizens’ DNA, a campaign that activists say is used to control minorities, especially Uighur Muslims.

His presidential campaign has also referred to the crackdown on the Muslim Uighur minority in China's Xinjiang as a "genocide" -- a campaign Beijing defends as vocational training to counter the threat of terrorism.

John Sudworth won for television reporting because of his BBC News investigation into China’s camps for members of the Uighur ethnic minority.

Kuseni, a Uighur who used to run a tutoring center in the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi, began to feel unsafe in China not long after clashes in 2009 between Uighurs and Han Chinese left scores dead and hundreds injured.

Now a report by Adrian Zenz, a German researcher who has exposed China's policies in Xinjiang, says Uighur women, among other ethnic minorities, are being threatened with internment in the camps for refusing to abort pregnancies that exceed birth quotas.

Soon after, she and hundreds of other Uighur women were taken to a hospital by armed police guards and forcibly fitted with IUDs.

Still more revolting, if not unlawful, was Trump's implied promise to overlook China's oppression of its Muslim Uighur minority and their imprisonment in concentration camps.