The Weizhou grand mosque, with numerous domes and minarets in a Middle Eastern style, had not received proper permits before construction, officials in the town of Weizhou said in a notice on Aug. 3. The mosque would be forcibly demolished on Friday, they added in the notice, widely circulated among Chinese Muslims on social media. …
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Human Rights Watch said on September 10 it has evidence that the Chinese government is carrying out a “systematic campaign” of rights abuses against Turkic Muslims living in the country’s western Xinjiang Province, accusing authoritiesof arbitrary detention, torture and far-reaching controls over everyday life. The group said in a report that Xinjiang’s Muslim population of about 13 …
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A Japanese woman was asked by an airline to take a pregnancy test before boarding a flight to a US island. Midori Nishida was travelling from Hong Kong to Saipan to visit her parents when she was asked by staff at Hong Kong Express Airways to prove she was not pregnant as part of a ‘fit-to-fly’ assessment. After …
A video shared on social media showed a notice that read: “We’ve been informed that from now on black people are not allowed to enter the restaurant.” McDonalds said that when it found out about the notice it temporarily closed the restaurant. Tensions have been running high between Africans and local people in the city. …
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