your world for. one of three like the cameras. graham tag and. using. one hundred so. terms and conditions and documentary on instagram. this. coming up in the program china is high profile. for years with no outside contract. closed doors look at. activists and families fighting for their families. the persecution of muslims in china. detention vilified as radicals and extremists. cross the country.

by british biology 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. a sentence for what beijing called subversion of state power without defining what his actual crimes are sentenced 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. is one of more than two hundred lawyers and activists who were detained in twenty fifteen in a crackdown by the chinese government it's a crackdown that's changed people's lives for. happier times before he was torn apart before. his son his little longer

without a father. for months his wife. 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 is last december trying to attend a court date police watching her every move. for her. 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 ship. but that doesn't matter to the security men block lee's path what you did. you have taught you how to enjoy here your government over the farm you know where i was told go go go go go go go walk. but this is hard to find response shaving her head in 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 something about you if you reject 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 white hart the remain a family united job with. united but also defiant even zoo but of the streets 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 it is what they have to say. john was punished for peaceful in 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 appointed 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 jon province its annual report released earlier this month highlight of the plight of more than a million we are 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. respond in what is bullying has been looking into the effect it's had on china's muslim minority it's not unusual for iran to get offended when he logs into china 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 i 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 caused the association of pork eaters agree 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 his claim. muslims make up less than two percent of china's population on iran whose real name is so he holocene belongs to the free minority

a mandarin speaking group of muslims was mosques often built in typical chinese style for centuries on ron's birthplace jean on 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 so shattered when the 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 find out. 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 excrete. 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 headed for our usual or a level jet that was hit that all the knowledge would 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. well i once you speak the truth and the communist party takes offense at you they will certainly take their revenge at some point you

shutting up will not protect you. and run fear is the worst the chinese muslims may be able to come. for me now for more on the stories morocco is a research associate of berlin's mcatee institute for china studies and expert in chinese media policy america thank you for coming in if i can just ask you at the very outset if you're the 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 since young than you live in any of the other provinces but there is i think legitimate concern that this in general harsher crackdowns may actually also spread to other provinces and he was there to

basically inhibit basic religious life but why does feel why do people need to in a sense look 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 itself someone that can people can turn to and that could compete with their own authority so that's why despite the fact that 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 as a cultural had correct on the bridge in 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 violating the c.c.p. itself very briefly but i do. expect this preg done 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 seen genet 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 those 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. companies both chinese and western that are known to be involved in setting up those camps are setting up their overall security system and seen jack and potentially in other provinces in the future right goldberg from the mic at the institute for china so i didn't but then thank you very much for coming in for having me. that's a familiar can find more online at. and don't forget to check out it up to news on facebook as we leave an hour with images from up top story today the jailing of chinese human rights via song from jang and the impact his attention has had to

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