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Uyghur imams targeted in China’s Xinjiang crackdownInternational 2021-05-14, by Editor Comments Off 2
China has imprisoned or detained at least 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014 in its crackdown in the Xinjiang region, according to new research by a Uyghur rights group.
The research, compiled by the Uyghur Human Rights Project and shared with the BBC, also found evidence that 18 clerics had died in detention or shortly after.
Many of the detained clerics faced broad charges like “propagating extremism”, “gathering a crowd to disturb social order”, and “inciting separatism”.
According to testimony from relatives, the real crimes behind these charges are often things like preaching, convening prayer groups, or simply acting as an imam.
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Adrian Zenz s report made the shocking finding that more than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang were being forced to pick cotton for Chinese factories.
It was right after Adrian Zenz published his report on the abuse of Uyghur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang that the wave of hacking attacks began.
Email after email began landing in his inbox from accounts with Uyghur-sounding names offering evidence and imploring him to click on a link.