FILE PHOTO: Rugby League - Super League - New Toronto Wolfpack signing Sonny Bill Williams holds Press Conference - Emirates Stadium, London, Britain - November 14, 2019. Toronto Wolfpack's Sonny Bill Williams during the press conference . Action Images via Reuters/Matthew Childs
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Rugby league star and former All Blacks back Sonny Bill Williams has followed the lead of Arsenal soccer player Mesut Ozil and issued a message of support for China's ethnic minority Uighur Muslim community.
The 34-year-old Williams, who left New Zealand rugby after the World Cup in Japan and to join Canadian-based British Super League club Toronto Wolfpack last month, converted to Islam in 2009.
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