BEIJING: A six-year prison sentence reportedly given to a man in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region for growing a beard was “absurd”, an overseas group said Monday as accounts of the penalty disappeared online.
Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the exile World Uyghur Congress, said the case was “typical of the political persecution” faced by Uighurs, the mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking minority group that calls Xinjiang home.
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