Around 10 million Uighurs and other Muslim groups in East Turkistan are facing a brutal crackdown that is making fasting almost impossible
This file photo taken on June 26, 2017 shows Muslim men arriving at the Id Kah Mosque for the morning prayer on Eid al-Fitr in the old town of Kashgar in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in East Turkistan by labelling"completely lawful" behaviour.
China has been long criticised for its crackdown on the Turkic Muslims, who make up almost half of the population of East Turkistan, but its aggressive policies have intensified in recent years and cultural, religious and economic discrimination has become widespread in the area.this year in East Turkistan, as was the case in previous years.
“Thank you to the Chinese embassy in Islamabad for stating directly that this large swathe of the Muslim population in Xinjiang, including those undergoing ‘compulsory education’ and ‘hard learning’, is not permitted to fast during Ramadan,”Uighurs say the ban is more widespread than officials claim, with some saying they have been asked to keep an eye out for anyone fasting or face collective punishment,Raxid also says Uighurs, as well as local and pro-Beijing officials, are closely monitored...
In Ramadan, all Uighur students are monitored by the school management and asked to prove that they’re not fasting. If they dare to fast, they are sent to detention centres that Chinese officials call “In fact, an estimated 1 million to 2 million Muslims, mainly Uighurs, are being held in mass concentration camps in China today.
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