CHINA-XINJIANG:RESTRICTIONS ON RELIGIOUS PRACTICES OF MUSLIMS IN XINJIANG
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Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on February 8, that residents of the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) had told RFA that officials had invited them to celebratory dinners marking the Lunar New Year at which pork was served, then threatening to send them to a "re-education" camp if they refused to take part. Photos sent to RFA also showed an official from Ili's Yining city visiting Muslim households and distributing raw pork, in the name of helping the less well-off on Monday, on the eve of the Year of the Pig. It said an ethnic Kazakh resident of Altay's Qinggil (in Chinese, Qinghe) county said that the attempts to make Muslims eat pork had begun late last year.
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