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Ten people are killed and nine others injured in a fire at an apartment block in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, China.
2022-11-25

President Joe Biden signs the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act into law banning imports from China's Xinjiang region citing concerns about the use of forced labour. China denies human rights abuses in Xinjiang.
2021-12-23

China reports 101 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. This is the highest number of new cases since mid-April, and 89 of them are from Xinjiang.
2020-07-29

The U.S. State Department imposes visa restrictions on numerous Chinese government officials whom it believes responsible for the detention or abuse of Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang province. On Monday the Department of Commerce added twenty-eight Chinese firms and bureaus to its "trade blacklist" for similar reasons.
2019-10-8

The United States State Department criticizes Thailand for deporting ethnic Uyghur back to China. The predominantly Uyghur Xinjiang province is the site of an ongoing political and religious crackdown in response to a wave of Muslim terrorist attacks in China.
2015-07-10

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 claims to have arrested 29 people following recent terrorist attacks in the Xinjiang region.
2014-06-5

Eight people are killed by police in Xinjiang, western China, after an apparent terrorist attack.
2013-12-30

Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in 21 people killed, including 15 police and social workers. Of the 15 government casualties, 10 members are ethnic Uighur, 3 are Han Chinese, and 2 are ethnic Mongolian.
2013-04-23

Violence in the Xinjiang region of China leaves 20 people dead.
2012-02-29