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Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International regularly express concern over the deteriorating human rights situation in East Turkistan. However, due to the Chinese authorities' tight controls on information, accurate and timely analysis of developments in East Turkistan is extremely difficult.
Human rights activists agree that without critical support from Uyghur-run human rights organizations, very little information from within East Turkistan will emerge.
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Uyghurs face religious persecution and discrimination at the hands of the Chinese authorities. Uyghurs who choose to practice their faith can only use a state-approved version of the Koran; men who work in the state sector cannot wear beards and women cannot wear headscarves. The Chinese state strictly controls the management of all mosques, stifling religious traditions that have formed a crucial part of the Uyghur identity for centuries.
It is Friday afternoon and the scene in front of the Jama mosque in the old city of Hotan, once a trading point for jade along the historic Silk Road, is much as it has been for centuries, save for the few cars and motorcycles fighting for space with the donkey carts laden with produce and travellers.
According to an inside source, the case of Alimujiang Yimiti, a Uyghur Christian whom authorities have held in detention since January 12, 2008 for preaching Christianity, has been sent to a Communist Party committee at the highest government level in Xinjiang Uyghur Antonymous Region.
Uyghurs face religious persecution and discrimination at the hands of the Chinese authorities. Uyghurs who choose to practice their faith can only use a state-approved version of the Koran; men who work in the state sector cannot wear beards and women cannot wear headscarves. The Chinese state strictly controls the management of all mosques, stifling religious traditions that have formed a crucial part of the Uyghur identity for centuries.
Members of a mostly Muslim ethnic group in China are detained and fined for worshiping outside their own villages.