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Exclusive: Report says optics of western firms organising Xinjiang tours amid ‘crimes against humanity are disastrous’Uyghur advocates have called on western tourism companies to stop selling package holidays that take visitors through Xinjiang, where …
Read MoreVisit was Chinese president’s second to the region since crackdown on Uyghurs began almost a decade agoThe Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has made a surprise visit to Xinjiang, urging officials in the region to conserve “hard won social stability” and …
Read MoreEvery Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2023, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it.This week, from March: Nisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delh…
Read MoreChristian family accused of desecrating copy of Qur’an, setting off rampage in FaisalabadHundreds of Muslim men have attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan, vandalising several churches and a cemetery and setting scores of houses on fire, a…
Read MoreWith elections due next year, there are fears unrest will grow as the ruling BJP faces criticism over its alleged inactionAn imam stabbed and shot to death in a mosque that was then burned to the ground. A young doctor, walking home, set upon by an ar…
Read MoreIndian finance minister hits out after former US president said Modi government should protect rights of MuslimsIndia’s finance minister has derided comments by the former US president Barack Obama that Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rig…
Read MoreRuling dismays free speech activists who accuse Modi government of systematically shrinking space for dissentAn Indian court has blocked the screening of an Al Jazeera documentary about the country’s Muslim minority, fuelling fears that the right to cr…
Read MoreThe controversial film championed by the BJP is an Islamophobic fantasyTwo weeks after I was born in the curfewed town of Aligarh, in Uttar Pradesh, the Aligarh riots of 1990 broke out. What began as skirmishes exploded into widespread bloodletting aft…
Read MoreUnrest breaks out in Muslim town of Nagu in Yunnan as people object to removal of dome and minarets Hundreds of police have clashed with protesters in a Muslim town in south-west China amid anger at plans to partially dismantle a 14th-century mosque.Th…
Read MoreDifferent faiths were once able to celebrate together in Karnataka. Now Hindu vigilante groups are targeting those who don’t share their beliefsFor 800 years, Bappanadu Sri Durgaparameshwari temple had stood as a symbol of India’s cohesive religious pa…
Read MoreSadai Banowan violated ‘laws and regulations of the Islamic emirate’, says local Taliban officialA female-run radio station in Afghanistan’s north-east has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said.Sadai…
Read MoreMatiullah Wesa, head of Pen Path, beaten and arrested outside a mosque after prayersThe founder of a project that campaigned for girls’ education in Afghanistan has been detained by Taliban authorities in Kabul, his brother and the UN have said.The Tal…
Read MoreNisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troublesArchive: The Guardian Continue reading…
Read MoreNisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troublesThis is how Nisar Ahmed remembers it. On 24 February 2020, at about three…
Read More‘India: the Modi Question’, examining 2002 sectarian riots, comes at sensitive time for prime minister• BBC offices in India raidedA BBC documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi’s, actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002 continues…
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