Officials continue crackdown on Islam amid concerns more than a million have been sent to internment camps
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A Chinese city has ordered members of a Muslim minority group
to turn themselves in to authorities if they observe practices such as abstention from alcohol.
Hami city government in the far-western Xinjiang region said people “poisoned by extremism, terrorism and separatism” would be treated leniently if they surrendered within the next 30 days.
The move comes as Beijing faces increasing international scrutiny over its treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority and other ethnic groups living in Xinjiang.
As many as a million Uighurs are thought to have been rounded up and placed in “re-education” centres, in what China claims is a clampdown on religious extremism.
The government message to Muslims in Xinjiang warned actions from contact [...]
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