JEDDAH (IQNA) – A delegation of 25 representatives from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) landed in China on Thursday to discuss bilateral relations and the status of the Muslim community in the country, the OIC said in a statement.
News ID: 3484822 Publish Date : 2023/08/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has called on Chinese leader to allow Michelle Bachelet to make a ‘credible visit’ to the country, including Xinjiang.
News ID: 3477703 Publish Date : 2022/02/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – China on Monday rejected “slanderous attacks” about conditions for Muslim Uighurs and other minorities living in its Xinjiang region, saying that they enjoyed freedom of religion and other fundamental rights.
News ID: 3474062 Publish Date : 2021/02/23
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A big-data program in China’s Xinjiang “arbitrarily selects” Muslims for detention, flagging behavior such as wearing a veil, studying the Quran or going on the Hajj pilgrimage as reasons for arrest, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
News ID: 3473359 Publish Date : 2020/12/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – China's foreign ministry denied claims from an Australian think-tank that it had destroyed thousands of mosques in its western Xinjiang region, and said there are over 24,000 mosques there, "more mosques per capita than many Muslim countries."
News ID: 3472625 Publish Date : 2020/09/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Satellite imagery posted by activists appears to show that the Chinese government is systematically destroying landmark mosques in the Muslim Xinjiang Autonomous region.
News ID: 3468258 Publish Date : 2019/04/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – China has arrested nearly 13,000 people it describes as terrorists and has broken up hundreds of "terrorist gangs" in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said in a report Monday issued to counter criticism of internment camps and other oppressive security in the traditionally Muslim region.
News ID: 3468164 Publish Date : 2019/03/18
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A city in China’s far-western Xinjiang region has ordered people who are “poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism”, in contact with overseas terror groups or act in a conservative Islamic manner, to turn themselves in to authorities.
News ID: 3467255 Publish Date : 2018/11/19
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Authorities in China’s far-western Xinjiang province appear to have officially legalized so-called “re-education camps” for people accused of religious extremism, just over a month after it denied any such centers exist.
News ID: 3466954 Publish Date : 2018/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Authorities in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region have ordered Muslim families to hand in religious items including prayer mats and Qurans, sources said.
News ID: 3464035 Publish Date : 2017/09/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Chinese official claims that Muslims living in the northwest region of Xinjiang are the happiest in the world.
News ID: 3463744 Publish Date : 2017/08/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Authorities in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region are confiscating all Qurans published more than five years ago due to “extremist content,” according to local officials, amid an ongoing campaign against “illegal” religious items owned by mostly Muslim ethnic Uyghur residents.
News ID: 3462947 Publish Date : 2017/05/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Many couples fret over choosing the perfect name for their newborn, but for Muslims in western China that decision has now become even more fraught: pick the wrong name and your child will be denied education and government benefits.
News ID: 3462673 Publish Date : 2017/04/26
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Emin Minaret or Imin Ta Uyghur mosque is located in Turfan, Xinjiang, China.
News ID: 3461396 Publish Date : 2016/11/12
China has reprimanded 15 Xinjiang (East Turkestan) officials for violations that include adhering to religious faith, state media said on Tuesday, amid a crackdown on Muslim Uighur people in the western region.
News ID: 1441041 Publish Date : 2014/08/19
