Muslim Uighur Ethnic Minority

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sought to distance itself from a face-recognition software feature devised by its cloud computing unit that could help users to identify members of the country's Muslim Uighur minority.

Human Rights Watch says it has found new evidence that authorities in one of China's most repressive regions are sweeping up citizens' personal information.

Chinese police have shot dead four people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said, in the bloodiest such incident in months.

A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.

Officials from China's ruling Communist Party have supported violent attacks in restive Xinjiang, a top regional official said in remarks highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.

China has arrested a member of its mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority who planned a bomb attack after returning from a training camp in Syria, state media said today.

When a remote county in China's far west exploded last week in what appeared to be the country's worst ethnic violence since 2009, it took the government six days to put out an exact death toll. It isn't clear when a full picture of what happened might emerge, if ever, given Beijing's iron-fisted grip on the minority region.

Sixteen people were killed in a clash in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, state media reported on Monday.

China's mainly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority will be the "biggest victims" of Monday's Tiananmen Square attack, which has been dubbed terrorism by the authorities, state media said on Thursday.

An overseas Uighur rights group fears a "fierce state crackdown" by China on the largely Muslim ethnic minority after Monday's car crash at Tiananmen Square, it said on Wednesday.

The toll in the riots between minority Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese is now 184 .

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has sought to distance itself from a face-recognition software feature devised by its cloud computing unit that could help users to identify members of the country's Muslim Uighur minority.

Human Rights Watch says it has found new evidence that authorities in one of China's most repressive regions are sweeping up citizens' personal information.

Chinese police have shot dead four people who allegedly attacked a Communist Party office in the restive Xinjiang region on Wednesday, state media said, in the bloodiest such incident in months.

A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.

Officials from China's ruling Communist Party have supported violent attacks in restive Xinjiang, a top regional official said in remarks highlighting internal opposition to tough local policies.

China has arrested a member of its mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority who planned a bomb attack after returning from a training camp in Syria, state media said today.

When a remote county in China's far west exploded last week in what appeared to be the country's worst ethnic violence since 2009, it took the government six days to put out an exact death toll. It isn't clear when a full picture of what happened might emerge, if ever, given Beijing's iron-fisted grip on the minority region.

Sixteen people were killed in a clash in China's restive far western region of Xinjiang, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, state media reported on Monday.

China's mainly Muslim Uighur ethnic minority will be the "biggest victims" of Monday's Tiananmen Square attack, which has been dubbed terrorism by the authorities, state media said on Thursday.

An overseas Uighur rights group fears a "fierce state crackdown" by China on the largely Muslim ethnic minority after Monday's car crash at Tiananmen Square, it said on Wednesday.

The toll in the riots between minority Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese is now 184 .