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Visit to Xinjiang

January 11, 2019;

The Chinese state media Xinhuanet has reported that diplomatic envoys from 12 countries “witnessed the social and economic progress in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region” during a recent short visit. The Malaysian representative is quoted as saying “religious activities are protected by the state”. This comes in the face of worldwide condemnation of the treatment of the ethnic Uyghur Muslim residents there.

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