China demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang in recent years: Report

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BEIJING: Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in , an Australian think tank said Friday, in the latest report of widespread abuses in the restive region. Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been incarcerated in camps across the northwestern territory, with residents pressured to give up traditional and . Around 16,000 mosques had been destroyed or...

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