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[Published: Friday May 14 2021]

 China imprisoning Muslim clerics

 
NEW YORK, 14 May. - (ANA) - China has imprisoned or detained at least 630 imams and other Muslim religious figures since 2014, according to new research by a Uighur rights group. 
 
The study by the Uighur Human Rights Project also found evidence that 18 clerics had died in detention or shortly after. 
 
Detained clerics face charges including “propagating extremism” and “inciting separatism”. 
 
The rights group tracked the fates of 1,046 Muslim clerics - the vast majority of them Uighurs.   - (ANA) -
 
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