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In this article the author discusses the status of Muslims in China. Focusing on the city of Kashgar in the province of Xinjiang, annexed by China in 1949, the author finds that tensions exist between the indigenous Uighur people and ethnic Chinese who have settled in the region. Efforts to assert state control of Islam are described.

In this article the author discusses political and social unrest in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang, home to the Uighur people. In common with the Tibetans, the Uighurs, adherents of Islam, resent the Chinese domination of their region and their efforts to control their freedom to worship.

The article presents world news briefs current for the week of March 8, 2010. On March 7 a general election will be held in Iraq. "Etemad," an Iranian newspaper, has been banned by the government for printing the comments of a former presidential candidate. The U.S. supreme court has declined to hear the case of Uighurs, Chinese Muslims, held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In this article the author discusses the plight of the Uighur people, Muslims who live in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang. At issue is the anti-Chinese demonstrations and subsequent violence that broke out in the city of Urumqi in July 2009. Among other issues the author examines the fact that education in the region is conducted in Mandarin, not in the Uighur's Turkic language.

In this article the author discusses the July 2009 protests staged by members of the Uighur ethnic group in Urumqi, China. She addresses the Han Chinese domination of the region, noting that the ethnic Uighurs do not consider themselves part of the Chinese nation. The national liberation movements in Xinjiang province and in Tibet are compared.

In this article the author discusses the travails undergone by Rebiya Kadeer, a Chinese businesswomen and human rights campaigner. The writer notes the similarities between Kadeer and herself, but points out that Kadeer was harassed, imprisoned and eventually exiled to the United States. Kadeer's efforts on behalf of her ethic group the Uighurs and the persecution of her family members remaining in China are described.