how to ask questions about my country and to book that is what i keep doing to my name and i would add. that. this is due to other news coming out of the program china drills high profile human rights transactions that for years with no outside contract this trial held behind closed doors we look at beijing's crackdown on activists and families fighting for their release. the persecution of muslims in china more than a million in detention vilified as radicals and extremists what's behind these spreading across the country.

by british manager welcome to news. we begin this program's first broadcast with a court judgment that our rights group has called a mockery of the rule of law and it's this four and a half years in prison the chinese lawyer wong. a sentence for what beijing called subversion of state power without defining what his actual crimes are a sentence to a man who's been held in prison for more than three and a half years sentenced to a man not allowed to meet his wife and child in all of that time wang is one of more than two hundred lawyers and activists who were detained in twenty fifteen in a crackdown by the trying his government it's a crackdown that's changed people's lives forever. happier times before this family was torn apart before long too when john went missing his son his little longer without

a father than with one. for months his my family went to did not even know he was alive. authorities kept long's case shrouded in secrecy once they admitted he'd been detained lee was denied any access here she was last december trying to attend a court date police watching her every move. usually what are you going to have to know my husband disappeared three and a half years ago i am his wife i want to see his trial we're going to go to that you know that doesn't matter to the security men block lee's path. you did it you're not enjoying here you're not i'm not over the farm you know we're all going to the soul of america they all. go whoa. but this is her defiant response shaving her head and public has staged a laundry list of protests to draw attention to her husband's case. last spring she

attempted a one hundred kilometer march from beijing to tianjin marking a thousand days since she had seen or heard from long. her son said the people who took away his dad must be monsters. i think that childhood should be carefree he should enjoy a happy childhood that you're his i believe you me how you reach out but he can't his father is a human rights lawyer so he's destined to have a different life. but lisa says she supports every choice her husband has made the what part we remain a family united. united but also defiant even zoo but out this street are adamant that her husband. is innocent instead she says public security laws are guilty as well as the judges she says the arrest

torture and prosecution of wong and other seven or nine activists is in violation of chinese law for context seven o nine refers to the ninth of july twenty fifteen when police began its crackdown detaining or questioning human rights lawyers across china rights groups amnesty international has also come out against the sentencing of young here's what they had to say. john was punished for peacefully standing up for human rights doing his job being a lawyer. he was disappeared for three and a half years where he was very likely tortured his family couldn't see him he had no access to a family appoint a lawyer so that we think that some of them today is not justified at all. a lack of justification is how human rights groups are saying china's actions in another area as well its treatment of its muslim population human rights watch calls at the world's most overlooked human rights crisis the persecution of good muslims in shin

jump province its annual report released earlier this month i liked of the plight of more than a million weaker is being detained in so-called reeducation centers china has justified its crackdown by portraying islam as a dangerous ideology and linking it to radicalization and terrorism critics say the negative coverage and stereotyping is fueling a wave of islamophobia across the country got us wondering what is bullying has been looking into the effect it's had on china's most of my daughter to it's not unusual for iran to get offended when he logs into china's social networks the right is keenly aware of the growing islamophobia wave spreading through the country including the so-called anti holo movement who supporters accuse muslims of dividing the country they're calling on airlines and universities to stop serving a lot of food dishes prepared according to muslim law china's internet censors have

nothing against these kinds of messages what do you hear for sure the goal of this movement is to clamp down on muslims. who are the sure what it meant to limit their rights as part of a minority. known of the members of the entitled movement we contacted were willing to speak on camera but one who calls himself the association of pork eaters agreed to answer a few questions in an online chat he said islam in china is on the rise in that chinese majority culture is under threat but he wouldn't provide examples to back is clear. muslims make up less than two percent of china's population on iran whose real name is so he holocene belongs to the queen minority a mandarin speaking group of muslims was mosques often built in typical chinese

style for centuries on ron's birthplace gina in eastern china has been the home of a substantial muslim community. the government strict rules controlling religious practice are apparent in the mosque scorched the head of this congregation says he supports state policy jewish outerwear so religion should serve society first and foremost a lot it should be managed in harmony with our social system so that's the right way. to come to an end. even though daily life in jena is muslim quarter looks like business as usual state back pressure on chinese muslims is mounting a new five year plan calls for stiffer control over mosques in a few provinces some of them have been closed and restaurants were forced to remove any signs in arad extract. the government points to the police state in the western

region of seems young as a perfect example of religious control but in reality that's where hundreds of thousands of ethnic muslim we go are being detained in reeducation camps according to human rights i. our camera team was stopped by guards when we approached one of them and we were held for allegations. that will generate machine that don't live on the ranch. come on. and ron is one of few chinese intellectuals who have openly criticized the state's persecution of the weak has this has led to police questioning him for two days he says he is afraid but refuses to remain silent. once you speak the truth and the communist party takes offense at you they will certainly take their revenge at some point if

shutting up will not protect you. here and around fear is the worst the chinese muslims may be able to come. joining me now for more in the studios morocco is a research associate of berlin's my cat the institute for china studies and an expert in chinese media policy america thank you for coming in if i can just ask you have the very outset if you're a chinese muslim. in believing in china how is your life compared to somebody who is not a muslim i mean it depends how much your life is disrupted can depend on you know where where you're staying in which province you live and also on how observant you are so not every person's life is maybe equally disrupted you're more affected by the crackdowns if you live for example in sin john than you live in any of the other provinces but there is i think legitimate concern that the whole of harsher crackdowns may actually also spread to other provinces and he was there to

basically inhibit basic religious life but why do you feel why do people need to in a sense over their shoulder if they're muslim and be aware of whether they can actually observe the religion that they follow the the problem from the point of view of the c.c.p. is that religion offers an alternative ideology an alternative authority and someone higher than of self someone that can people can turn to and that could compete with their own authorities so that's why despite the fact they're not that many people like i think two percent muslims and china they're cracking down really hard because they see that this is like a fundamental competitor to its own authority in china and has just become more pronounced under president xi jinping because china has had religion in the balls but there's a cultural had correct on the religion the pause is this

a rewind of sorts of time from the past what's happened in the past couple of years as things have gotten a lot more intense which is part of the overall crackdown on any alternative ideology that the c.c.p. views as a threat so as part of that they have really been intensifying their or their crackdown on anything that could be seen as as vive allaying the c.c.p. itself very briefly but i do. expect this crackdown to increase in phones. this year as the c.c.p. turns seventy and there are a number of anniversaries of sensitive events like protests and soon janet self in two thousand and nine the democracy movement of one nine hundred eighty nine and a number of other sensitive anniversaries i absolutely expect this to intensify quite dramatically is there anything that the outside world can do western powers or other nations over interest who can try and effect change i think both western

countries and muslim majority countries should speak out or should put possibly their own economic interests in china aside should not let themselves be quite silenced by chinese attempts to you know silence the discussion and possibly consider more measures such as sanctioning chinese officials who are known to be involved in those sanctioning companies both chinese and western that are known to be involved in setting up those camps are setting up their overall security system and soon jack and potentially in other provinces in the future right goldberg from the mic at the institute for china studies yet and thank you very much for coming in for having. that's a familiar can find more online at de double dot com for the pleasure and don't forget to check out on facebook as well we never know with images from up top story today the joining of trying to use your words for a long run jang and the impact his attention has had on his it's your business.

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