Islam in China

The World’s host Marco Werman talks with Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch, on the Trump administration’s move to blacklist Chinese companies that provided surveillance technology to track Turkic Uighurs and other Muslims.

Adila Sadir, a Uighur woman from China, never expected to make a life for herself in Massachusetts, but recent persecution of the Uighurs in her homeland has lead her to stay. Now, she owns the only Uighur restaurant in the state and is speaking out about her people’s struggle.

Turkey ended several years of conspicuous silence on China’s massive incarceration campaign of Uighurs and other Muslims in Xinjiang. Some hope it’s a tipping point for other Muslim nations to finally weigh in.

China rejects the suspected mass detention and heavy surveillance of Uighurs, dismissing the allegations as “seriously far away from facts.”

The Chinese government has gone to great lengths to keep a lid on its policies in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the historic home for the Uighur Muslim population. But the details of what human rights advocates say is a massive crackdown on an entire culture are becoming more widely known.