Sources: The Hindu
Ten people are killed and nine others injured in a fire at an apartment block in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China. 2022-11-25
Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom join a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Beijing citing China's human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region and Beijing's ongoing freeze on ministerial contact with Canberra. 2021-12-8
The United States Senate unanimously votes to pass the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, a bill that would ban products from Xinjiang in China, unless they are certified as not from the Xinjiang internment camps. 2021-07-14
China reports 137 asymptomatic cases during a drive to test 4.75 million people in Kashgar. It is the highest number of asymptomatic infections in nearly seven months following the discovery of a cluster of cases linked to a garment factory in Xinjiang. 2020-10-26
Ilham Tohti, an Uyghur economist serving a life sentence for his criticisms of China’s policies in Xinjiang, is awarded this year’s Sakharov Prize. 2019-12-18
Chinese security forces have killed 28 members of a supposed terrorist group in the mainly ethnic Uyghur Xinjiang region. 2015-11-20
The People's Republic of China jails 32 people for allegedly downloading and spreading violent Islamist material via the Internet to Xinjiang. 2014-07-11
The People's Republic of China jails 113 people in Xinjiang autonomous region for terrorism and other offences. 2014-06-30
Eight people are killed by police in Xinjiang, western China, after an apparent terrorist attack. 2013-12-30
20 people are jailed in China on charges of terrorism in the Xinjiang region. 2012-08-2