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New restrictions on Chinese Muslims
China has introduced strict controls on religious activities in its Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, including compulsory political drills for clerics and a partial ban on fasting during holy days.
State media says authorities in the southern Xinjiang city of Kashgar, where Turkic-speaking ethnic Uighur (WEE-gooh(uh) Muslims form a large majority, have also staged a series of night time searches of homes.
The Kashgar Daily reports that authorities in Kashgar, the nearest Chinese city to the country's border with Afghanistan, are on high alert for separatist activity.
The city's Communist Party Secretary Yao Yongfeng was quoted by the newspaper as saying local officials must be prepared to combat subversion under the guise of religious activity.
Since the September 11 attacks on the United States, there have been frequent reports of a sustained crackdown in Xinjiang, which has seen a small-scale and intermittently violent separatist campaign over recent years.
25/01/2002 4:32:21 AM | ABC Radio Australia News
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