BEIJING: Members of China's mostly Muslim Uighur minority and overseas groups on Thursday dismissed China's account of a Tiananmen Square "terrorist attack" as a dubious pretext for repression, amid signs of stepped-up security.
Beijing police said on Wednesday that Usmen Hasan - in an SUV carrying his mother and wife, jihadist banners and machetes - sped onto the pavement, crashed in front of a giant portrait of Mao Zedong and set the car alight.
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