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BISHKEK (TCA) — As authorities in China’s Xinjiang province seek to prevent extremism and separatism, especially tough security measures target ethnic Uighurs. We are republishing this article on the issue by Darren Byler*, originally published by Eurasianet: Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Reports have surfaced from the Xinjiang Uighur province of China claiming that Han Chinese security forces have imprisoned an estimated 120,000 members of the Uighur minority in “reeducation camps,” nominally to stamp out radicalism in the Muslim ethnic group, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Two Kazakhstan citizens who are members of a Russia-based group called the Union of Co-creators of the Holy Russia have each been sentenced by a court in Kazakhstan to five years in prison on charges of inciting ethnic and religious hatred, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — China has announced that it will be footing the bill for the construction and equipping of a new base in northern Afghanistan, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — A court in Kazakhstan's northern city of Petropavlovsk has sentenced a man to two years in prison on charges of inciting ethnic hatred via the Internet, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — As separatist trends are getting stronger in the world, as in Spain’s Catalonia and Iraq’s Kurdistan, Kazakhstan, too, may face separatist threats, largely caused by the government’s internal economic policies. We are republishing this article by Paul Goble on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
