In the wake of a series of deadly clashes and attacks in China’s far west the authorities in Urumqi ban women from wearing the burqa. Here is an article from Shanghai by Tom Phillips.
The capital of China’s most Muslim region has banned residents from wearing the burqa in “an effort to curb growing extremism”.
Women in Urumqi, a city of 3.1 million people in the far western region of Xinjiang, will no longer be allowed to wear the garment, state media announced this week.
“Burqas are not traditional dress for Uighur women, and wearing them in public places is banned in countries such as Belgium and France,” Xinhua, China’s official news agency, wrote in a brief article about the ban.
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