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Xinjiang, [a] officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, [11] [12] is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
Although Xinjiang as a whole is designated as a "Uyghur Autonomous Region", since 1954 more than 50% of Xinjiang's land area are designated autonomous areas for 13 native non-Uyghur groups. [261] However, the borders were drawn so that no ethnic minority could exercise autonomy where they composed a majority.
The province's final status was instituted in 1955 as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of which Saifuddin Azizi became its first chairman, when it was reorganised into an autonomous region for the 13 nationalities of Xinjiang (Uyghur, Han Chinese, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Hui, Mongol, Tajik, Uzbek, Tatar, Russian, Xibe, Daur, Manchu people), thus ...
Police officers walk past the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, on Nov. 8, 2018. (Bloomberg via Getty Images file) Like most Uyghurs, Hasan is originally from Xinjiang ...
The autonomous regions (Chinese: 自治区; pinyin: Zìzhìqū) are one of four types of province-level divisions of the People's Republic of China.Like Chinese provinces, an autonomous region has its own local government, but under the law of the People's Republic of China, an autonomous region has more legislative rights, such as the right to "formulate self-government regulations and other ...
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region; Autonomous region: Capital: Ürümqi: Prefecture-level divisions; Sub-provincial autonomous prefectures: 1: Prefectural cities: 4 ...
The OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China is a report published on 31 August 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concerning the treatment of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim groups in China.
Volkswagen has sold its plant in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China beset by accusations of human rights abuses, citing “economic reasons.”