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| Subject: China Slave Pen: Jailing of man who grew beard Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:53 pm | |
| A six-year prison sentence reportedly given to a man in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region for growing a beard was "absurd", an overseas group said Monday as accounts of the penalty disappeared online.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the World Uyghur Congress exile organisation, said the case was "typical of the political persecution" faced by Uighurs, the mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority group that calls Xinjiang home.
"This is a case that would not happen in any other country in the world," Raxit said in a statement. "It is unacceptable and absurd. It exposes China's hostile attitude and crisis of governance."
He added: "If a Chinese person grows a beard, it is a personal fashion he is allowed to choose freely. If a Uighur grows a beard, he is a religious extremist.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/26868046/chinas-jailing-of-man-who-grew-beard-absurd/ |
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