Uploaded May 2013 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Last month, violence in Maralbeshi, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, left 21 dead. Chinese authorities blamed the deaths on "terrorists," but a BBC reporter who managed to sneak into the region threw the official account into question bbc.in/Z0Sylt
Now a new report bit.ly/12j0G4d from the Uyghur Human Rights Project details the Chinese Communist Party's continued religious and cultural repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim minority who live in Xinjiang. Alim Seytoff, the Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and President of the Uyghur American Association, joins China Focus to talk about the situation in Xinjiang.
Last month, violence in Maralbeshi, in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, left 21 dead. Chinese authorities blamed the deaths on "terrorists," but a BBC reporter who managed to sneak into the region threw the official account into question bbc.in/Z0Sylt
Now a new report bit.ly/12j0G4d from the Uyghur Human Rights Project details the Chinese Communist Party's continued religious and cultural repression of the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim minority who live in Xinjiang. Alim Seytoff, the Director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and President of the Uyghur American Association, joins China Focus to talk about the situation in Xinjiang.
