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China accused of closing and destroying mosques
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67483202.amp
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The BBC contacted China’s foreign ministry and ethnic affairs commission for comment in advance of publication of the HRW report.
The report follows mounting evidence of systematic human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in China’s north-western Xinjiang region.
Satellite footage obtained by HRW showed a round dome at a mosque in Liaoqiao village being replaced by a Chinese-style pagoda sometime between October 2018 and January 2020.
Another video verified by HRW showed an ablution hall in Liujiaguo mosque in southern Ningxia being demolished shortly after the removal of its two minarets and a dome.
A 2019 report by a local television station said authorities converted several mosques into “workspaces” and “cultural centres” after “painstaking ideological education and guidance work”.
Arab and Muslim leaders across the world should be “asking questions and raising concerns”, said Elaine Pearson, Human Rights Watch’s Asia director.
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