Dozens of mosques in the Muslim-dominant region of Xinjiang in western China have been demolished or partially destroyed since 2017, satellite images have revealed.
Worshippers are subject to extra security checks and monitored by high-tech surveillance cameras while Muslim students must scan their faces upon entering the razor-wired gates of their primary schools.
Muslim residents of heavily policed Xinjiang are facing the increasing pressure from Beijing as the ruling Communist Party tightens its control over religious activities.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... jiang.htmlAn estimated one million Uighurs and other Turkic-speaking ethnic groups are held in a vast network of internment camps.
After initially denying their existence, Chinese authorities last year acknowledged that they run 'vocational education centres' aimed at steering people clear of religious extremism by teaching them Mandarin and China's laws.
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