China surveils mosques, imams, and overseas family contacts in Xinjiang

Evidence

This ban was accompanied, reported Human Rights Watch, by routine state vetting of Uyghur imams, close surveillance of mosques, the removal of religious teachers and students from schools, restrictions placed on Uyghur Muslims’ communication with family and friends living overseas, and the screening of literature assigned to students in Xinjiang schools. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 616