Monday, March 30, 2015

Chinese court jails a man for 6 years for growing beard...

A court in China's mainly Muslim Xinjiang region has sentenced a man to six years in prison for "provoking trouble" and growing a beard, a practise discouraged by local authorities, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

The court in the desert oasis city of Kashgar sentenced the 38-year-old Uighur to six years, while his wife was given a two-year sentence, according to the China Youth Daily.

The man "had started growing his beard in 2010" while his wife "wore a veil hiding her face and a burqa", the paper said.

The couple were found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble", a vague accusation regularly used in the Chinese judicial system.

 For more than a year the authorities in Xinjiang have been campaigning against men growing beards — a practice officials associate with extremist ideas. Full story...

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