Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered ethnic minority Muslim families to hand in religious items including prayer mats and copies of the Quran to the authorities, RFA has learned. Officials across Xinjiang have been warning neighborhoods and mosques that ethnic minority Uyghur, Kazakh and Kyrgyz Muslims must hand in the items … Continue reading China’s police force will punish Xinjiang Muslims if they don’t voluntarily hand in copies of the Quran, prayer mats and any other religious symbols More