Id Kah Mosque
'Others should join Turkey and defend China's Uighurs'
This picture taken on June 25, 2017 shows police patrolling in a night food market near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, a day before the Eid al-Fitr holiday. The prefecture in the region's south has seen an explosion in the construction of vocational training" centres for the region's Muslim minorities.
In Uighur heartland, China vows 'heavy pressure' to defeat militants
China will maintain "heavy pressure" to defeat militants in its far western region of Xinjiang, China's fourth most senior leader said during a visit to its ethnic Uighur heartland, urging religious figures to take the lead in opposing extremism.