The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted the desperate situation in which minority Muslim groups – predominantly Uyghurs – have been under intense pressure from China ’s Communist Party (CCP) since the spring of 2017, with laws being introduced banning children from speaking their native language in school, men growing long beards and women wearing veils. Hundreds of religious sites, namely mosques and Muslim graveyards, have also been razed to the ground since Beijing’s representatives in Xinjiang introduced so-called anti-extremism bills with CNN having examined satellite images of these sites before and after they were destroyed. Further unsettling accounts have emerged from concentration camps, which have been likened to those of Adolf Hitler’s murderous regime, where at least 1 million Uyghur, Kazaks and Uzbeks have been held in high-security facilities where detainees are denied the right to contact their families and freely practice their religion.
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