Uygur Muslims enjoying religious freedom

Uygur Muslims are enjoying religious freedom. “I pray five times in Etigar Mosque, main mosque of Kashgar city, Xinjiang. Not only me, but all Uyghur Muslims pray freely here. I have never experienced any religious ban on Muslim faith or Muslim rights,” said Mr Mehmat, a local Uyghur. In a face-to-face interaction as he emerged from the Etigar Mosque Mosque, he categorically dismissed rumors of state-sponsored repression of Uyghur Muslims, saying talk of creepy surveillance and illegal detentions were completely false and misleading people. When talking with the President of the IIRMR, who led a delegation of 15 Pakistani journalists to Kashgar, Mehmat made a categoric remarks that Uyghurs are hundred percent free, safe and secure here.

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