EditorialPainted wooden panel showing riders with bowls into which birds dive, from Dandan-oilik, Khotan oasis, Xinjiang province, China, 6th CE.Before the advent of Islam in the 8th century, Khotan was a thriving kingdom along the Southern Silk Route. Dandan-o...
EditorialAnkar Uyghur, a protester of Uyghur descent who said family in Xinjiang, China, was threatened, at a rally to demonstrate solidarity with protesters of strict COVID lockdown rules in China, across the street from the Chinese Consulate in Manhattan, Nov. 29, 2022. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialDemonstrators march over the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang Province, in San Francisco on Feb. 3, 2022. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialA device for facial recognition at the entrance of a primary school in Hotan, in the western region of Xinjiang, China, on Dec. 11, 2019. (Giulia Marchi/The New York Times)
EditorialMatt Dwyer, an executive at Patagonia, the privately held outdoor apparel maker, at the company’s campus in Ventura, Calif., May 24, 2022. (Stephen Goldstein/The New York Times)
EditorialMatt Dwyer, an executive at Patagonia, the privately held outdoor apparel maker, at the company’s campus in Ventura, Calif., May 24, 2022. (Stephen Goldstein/The New York Times)
EditorialShanghai used to be the glamorous China, while Xinjiang was the dark China. Now both are casualties of authoritarian excess. (Xinmei Liu/The New York Times)
EditorialUyghur workers at a factory in the Xinjiang region of China on Aug. 3, 2019. A wide range of products and raw materials flow from the region, where accusations of forced labor proliferate. (Gilles Sabrié/The New York Times)
EditorialAbduweli Ayub who believes his niece, Mihriay Erkin, pictured on his computer, died in state custody custody in Xinjiang because of his activism, in Oslo, Norway, July 19, 2021. (Andrea Gjestvang/The New York Times)
EditorialGulbahar Hatiwaji, a Uyghur, living in Boulogne-Billancourt, a city near Paris, sits for a portrait on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialThe border policeman from entry-exit inspection station are checking the China-Europe freight trains in Bortala,Xinjiang,China on 02th June, 2021