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Several Southern California groups gathered in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles Nov. 27 in support ...

Bugra Arkin runs Dolans, one of only a handful of Uyghur restaurants in the United States. He had an unlikely, and not entirely happy, path to becoming a restaurateur. Coinneach MacLeod spent much of his time during the pandemic baking.

Members of Southern California's Uyghur community are disappointed and incensed that Beijing is hosting the Winter Olympics.

Targeted for religion, political views, they still speak out

The number of people from China seeking asylum worldwide has risen sharply in the past decade, according to the U.N.

Uyghurs are a Turkic ethnic group centered primarily in the Xinjiang province of Western China. Xinjiang is Mandarin Chinese for "new boundary" — a region violently claimed in the early 20th century by the Chinese government after years of war and conflict between the Uyghurs and the Chinese. Today, theres a cultural genocide happening in the province, with more than 3 million Uyghurs imprisoned in detention centers, where their language, religion, and way of life are slowly being wiped out b...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Major camera company can sort people by race, alert police when it spots Uighurs [Los Angeles Times :: BC-CPT-FACIAL-RECOGNITION-CHINA:LA] Facial recognition software developed by China-based Dahua, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of video surveillance technology, purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clients when it identifies members of the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs. Dahua, though among Chinese companie...

Major camera company can sort people by race, alert police when it spots Uighurs Johana Bhuiyan © Provided by The LA Times Surveillance cameras on the Dahua Technologies office building in Hangzhou, in east Chinas Zhejiang province. (AFP / Getty Images) Facial recognition software developed by China-based Dahua, one of the worlds largest manufacturers of video surveillance technology, purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clien...

Facial recognition software developed by Dahua, a Chinese video surveillance firm sanctioned by the U.S., purports to detect the race of individuals caught on camera and offers to alert police clients when it identifies members of the Turkic ethnic group Uighurs.