However, the report identified about 630 villages in the region whose names were changed for referencing Islam or Uyghur culture and history, HRW said. Words like "dutar," a traditional Uyghur ...

A sign depicts President Xi Jinping joining hands with a group of Uyghur elders at the Unity New Village in Hotan, in western China's Xinjiang region China has changed the names of hundreds of ...

The report compared the names of 25,000 Xinjiang villages as listed by the National Bureau of Statistics of China between 2009 and 2023. Words like “dutar,” a traditional Uyghur string instrum ...