Uyghur butcher served 7 years in jail for urging friends not to drink alcohol or smoke
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A Uyghur butcher serving a seven-year prison sentence in southern Xinjiang for advising friends not to drink alcohol or smoke at a gathering has been released alive and returned to his family, sources with knowledge of the situation said. It marks the first time that one of the roughly 100 jailed Uyghur residents from Xaneriq...

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“The reason for arrest is that he stopped others from smoking and drinking,” said the officer. “He is not a religious figure.”

Abstaining from alcohol is one of 75 different activities and behaviors identified by the Chinese government as a sign of potential religious extremism. It is listed in brochures distributed in some parts of Xinjiang to educate the public on how to identify extreme religious activities.

It is also a cause for jailing Uyghurs, who as Muslims abstain from drinking alcohol, as part of a larger effort by Beijing to eradicate Uyghur culture and religion.

Initially, the Uyghur was “educated” in a camp for two years, but in 2019, he was sentenced and transferred to prison, they said.

Xaneriq village consists of 23 smaller communities with a total population of 31,000 people, averaging around 1,400 people in each community.

About 800 people live in Tawaqchi community, of which more than 100 were in prison, with some serving indefinite sentences in internment camps, an Uyghur expatriate said.

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  • Cosmoooooooo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Of course, in China, it’s illegal to spread religious lies, hate, religious fiction, and complete nonsense.

    China has decided to reeducate religious extremists in an attempt to bring them into the 21st century, and if they don’t comply, they end up in jail for spreading obvious lies.

    I hope they also got the priest that decided spreading religious hate and bullshit to people in China would be a good idea.

    Don’t like it? The west’s answer is to let religious extremists propagate until they commit terror acts, then they are arrested. Then the same priest that radicalized the last religious terrorist keeps on radicalizing more, and more people until retirement. If it happens in another country, we declare war and kill millions of innocent people along with the radicals. I don’t consider this a better solution in any way.

    • answersplease77@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      reeducate religion exterimists my ass stop the propagonda bs. They jailed 2 millions from the ethnic minority of the same pronvince. It is ethnic cleansing and everyone knows it

      • BrikoX@lemmy.zipMEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

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    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 months ago

      Of course, in China, it’s illegal to spread religious lies, hate, religious fiction, and complete nonsense.

      What’s the sentence for promoting Chinese traditional medicine? Must be severe given it’s all lies, fiction and general nonsense.

    • Kedly@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      Not smoking or drinking is religious extremism now? Yeah, welcome to the ban list