Chinese authorities are ordering Muslims in the country to hand
over their prayer mats and copies of the Quran or else face
punishment, it has been reported.
Officials in Xinjiang province have warned members of the Uyghur
ethnic minority they must surrender religious items on pain of
"harsh punishments", according to an exile leader.
"We received a notification saying that every single ethnic Uyghur
must hand in any Islam-related items from their own home,
including Qurans, prayers and anything else bearing the symbols of
religion," Dilxat Raxit, of the exile World Uyghur Congress,
told Radio Free Asia (RFA), which is operated by the US
government.
The directive also applies to ethnic Kazakh and Kyrgyz Muslims,
RFA said. It was reportedly announced via the WeChat social
network.
In its update on China in 2016 and 2017, Amnesty International
said the communist Beijing government "continued to violate the
right to freedom of religion, and crack down on all unauthorised
religious gatherings" in the region, and to detain Uyghur writers.

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