China Clamps Down

In this Dec. 7, 2018, photo, an Arabic inscription reading "there is no god but God" is hung in a butcher shop in the Islamic neighborhood of Niujie in Beijing, China. The shop's owner, Ma Changli, 39, said his people, China's second-largest Muslim ethnic minority group, the Hui, are supported but the central government despite reports of increasing crackdown on religious groups across the country in 2018. "Our country has always been pretty supportive to our worship," the butcher said. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

Hui poet fears for his people as China ‘Sinicizes’ religion

JINAN, China (AP) — Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his people’s oppression under Mao Zedong.

In this Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018, photo, a man sells Christmas decorations on a street of Zhangjiakou in northern China's Hebei province. At least four Chinese cities and one county have restricted Christmas celebrations this year. Churches in another city have been warned to keep minors away from Christmas, and at least ten schools nationwide have curtailed Christmas on campus, The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Santa gets pushed out as China’s leaders emphasize tradition

In this Sep. 17, 2018, satellite image released by Planet Labs, buildings are seen around the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China’s Xinjiang region. This is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing and food industries. Some of them are within the internment camps; others are privately owned, state-subsidized factories where detainees are sent once they are released. (Planet Labs via AP)

US sportswear traced to factory in China’s internment camps

In this Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018, photo, residents pass by the entrance to the "Hotan City apparel employment training base" where Hetian Taida has a factory in Hotan in western China's Xinjiang region. This is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing and food industries. Some of them are within the internment camps; others are privately owned, state-subsidized factories where detainees are sent once they are released. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

US reviews report of imports from forced labor in China camp

In this Nov. 29, 2018 photo, Mir Aman talks to The Associated Press, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Scores of Pakistani men, like Aman, whose Muslim Uighur wives have disappeared into internment camps in China feel helpless, fighting a wall of silence as they struggle to reunite their families. Political and economic factors, including concerns about losing out on vast Chinese investments, have kept Muslim countries like Pakistan quiet about the plight of their fellow Muslims, being weaned off their faith in so-called re-education camps. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Locked away, forgotten: Muslim Uighur wives of Pakistani men

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2018, file photo, an Uighur woman shuttles school children on an electric scooter as they ride past a propaganda poster showing China's President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uighur elders in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region. Under Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Uighur homeland has been blanketed with stifling surveillance, from armed checkpoints on street corners to facial-recognition-equipped CCTV cameras steadily surveying passers-by. Now, Uighurs say, they must live under the watchful eye of the ruling Communist Party even inside their own homes. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China’s Uighurs told to share beds, meals with party members

ISTANBUL (AP) — The two women in the photograph were smiling, but Halmurat Idris knew something was terribly wrong.

In China, your car could be talking to the government

SHANGHAI (AP) — When Shan Junhua bought his white Tesla Model X, he knew it was a fast, beautiful car.

FILE - In this March 12, 2017, file photo, Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, speaks on the sideline of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. The senior Chinese official is describing the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslims in the country’s far west as a system of training centers that saves Muslims from religious extremism by teaching them to speak Mandarin and accept modern science. It was a rare instance of the ruling Communist Party publicly detailing its vision of what the extrajudicial detention of an estimated 1 million ethnic minority Uighur and Kazakh Muslims is setting out to achieve. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China says interning Muslims brings them into ‘modern’ world

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday characterized its mass internment of Muslims as a push to bring into the “modern, civilized” world a destitute people who are easily led astray — a depiction that analysts said bore troubling colonial overtones.

In this Aug. 31, 2018, photo, shot through a car window, a child and a woman wait outside a school entrance with multiple layers of barbed wire and barricades in Peyzawat, western China's Xinjiang region. Uighurs fear the Chinese government's expansion of compulsory Mandarin-intensive classes and boarding schools away from home will gradually erode their children's Central Asian ethnic identity and Islamic beliefs. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China treats Uighur kids as ‘orphans’ after parents seized

ISTANBUL (AP) — Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive.

In this Aug. 24, 2018, photo, a phone displaying an image of Gulzar Seley, who was detained in China along with her newborn son, is placed on a table next to platters of sweets in the home of her husband Halmurat Idris in Istanbul, Turkey. Seley went back to China from Turkey two years ago to see her dying mother despite news of Uighurs being taken to reeducation and pleas from her husband for her not to go. She was detained upon landing in Urumqi, China, and Idris heard she was eventually imprisoned along with their son. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

Empty places at the table: Uighur children missing in China

ISTANBUL (AP) — Chinese authorities are placing the children of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities into dozens of state-run orphanages across the far western Xinjiang region, as around 1 million adults in their families are sent to internment camps.

In this photo taken Sunday, June 3, 2018, Xu Shijuan, a 63-year-old Seventh-Day Adventist talks about her faith at her home in Zhengzhou in central China's Henan province. Under President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes a religious revival. For four years, Xu used her living room for house church gatherings. She stopped in March after a group of men led by a local official ordered her to disband the meeting of about two dozen elderly Christians. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul

NANYANG, China (AP) — The 62-year-old Chinese shopkeeper had waited nearly his entire adult life to see his dream of building a church come true — a brick house with a sunny courtyard and spacious hall with room for 200 believers.

China’s mass indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Hour upon hour, day upon day, Omir Bekali and other detainees in far western China’s new indoctrination camps had to disavow their Islamic beliefs, criticize themselves and their loved ones and give thanks to the ruling Communist Party.