TEHRAN (IQNA) – The world should ignore “gossip” about China’s Xinjiang region and trust authorities there, the government’s top diplomat said on Tuesday, when asked if Beijing would allow international observers to inspect camps holding Muslims there.
News ID: 3467213 Publish Date : 2018/11/13
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The “sinicization” of religion in China’s troubled north-western region of Xinjiang must be upheld to promote ethnic solidarity and religious harmony, a senior Communist party official said.
News ID: 3466973 Publish Date : 2018/10/14
TEHRAN (IQNA) – In yet another move aimed at reducing Islamic influence in China, authorities there have renamed a river because it had an "Arabic-sounding name".
News ID: 3466887 Publish Date : 2018/10/02
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Amnesty International (AI) in a report on Monday urged the Chinese government to end the "brainwashing" of nearly one million Muslims held in "re-education" camps in the Xinjiang Uighur region.
News ID: 3466815 Publish Date : 2018/09/24
TEHRAN (IQNA) – China must immediately release Uighur Muslims being held in alleged political re-education camps on the “pretext of countering terrorism”, a committee of UN human rights experts said.
News ID: 3466665 Publish Date : 2018/09/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – There is no accurate figure of the number of ethnic Uighurs who have gone to fight with militant groups in Syria, China’s special envoy for the Syrian issue said on Monday, adding he hoped to return to Syria to gain a clearer picture.
News ID: 3466567 Publish Date : 2018/08/20
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare public pushback to the government's efforts to rewrite how religions are practiced in the country.
News ID: 3466527 Publish Date : 2018/08/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than one million Uighur Muslims are estimated to be in detention in "counter-extremism centers" in China's far west, the vice chairperson of a United Nations anti-discrimination committee said, citing credible reports.
News ID: 3466523 Publish Date : 2018/08/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – China’s close watch over its Islamic minority is being extended abroad, as Muslims from some Chinese regions make the Hajj pilgrimage wearing state-issued tracking devices.
News ID: 3466460 Publish Date : 2018/08/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Green-domed mosques still dominate the skyline of China's "Little Mecca", but they have undergone a profound change -- no longer do boys flit through their stone courtyards en route to classes and prayers.
News ID: 3466286 Publish Date : 2018/07/16
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Flags should be hung in a "prominent position" in all mosque courtyards for the places of worship to become "a solid platform for the study of the party and the country's laws and policies," the China Islamic Association said.
News ID: 3465909 Publish Date : 2018/05/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Turkey’s culture and tourism minister suggested that China’s Muslim can study Islam at universities in his country.
News ID: 3465617 Publish Date : 2018/04/22
TEHRAN (IQNA) – China strongly condemned the latest missile strikes by the United States along with its allies Britain and France on crisis-hit on Syria, stating the military aggression violates the basic principles and norms of international law.
News ID: 3465565 Publish Date : 2018/04/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has recently been involved in the controversy around “Arabization”, with some measures against pan-Islamic tendencies already having been taken.
News ID: 3465460 Publish Date : 2018/03/28
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims worry curbs in Gansu province will lead to more sweeping restrictions on religion already enforced in China’s restive Xinjiang region.
News ID: 3465212 Publish Date : 2018/02/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Great Mosque of Xi'an has charmed the Muslim dynasty with honor as much as any other religious heritage- with one being epic calligraphy of entire verses from the Holy Quran.
News ID: 3465089 Publish Date : 2018/01/31
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 100,000 minority Uighur Muslims are reportedly being indefinitely detained in overcrowded “re-education” camps on China’s western border.
News ID: 3465045 Publish Date : 2018/01/27
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A mostly Muslim county in western China has banned children from attending religious events over a winter break, an education bureau said in a notice posted online, as authorities step up control of religious education.
News ID: 3464975 Publish Date : 2018/01/17
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang handed down a 16-and-a-half-year jail term to an ethnic Kazakh man on ethnic hatred charges.
News ID: 3464573 Publish Date : 2017/12/01
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Chinese tech giant Huawei has denied favouring Muslims with its phones equipped with alarms for prayers after it was "viciously attacked" by Chinese netizens, state media reported.
News ID: 3464451 Publish Date : 2017/11/18
