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Friday, 25 September 2020

Thousands of Xinjiang mosques destroyed or damaged, report finds

Fewer mosques in China’s western region than at any time since the Cultural Revolution, says thinktank

Thousands of mosques in Xinjiang have been damaged or destroyed in just three years, leaving fewer in the region than at any time since the Cultural Revolution, according to a report on Chinese oppression of Muslim minorities.

The revelations are contained in an expansive data project by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), which used satellite imagery and on-the-ground reporting to map the extensive and continuing construction of detention camps and destruction of cultural and religious sites in the north-western region.

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