A Chinese landlord was arrested on terror charges for renting out his home to ethnic minority Muslims

pulse

August 21, 2018 5:16 AM

A Chinese landlord was arrested on terror charges for renting out his home to ethnic minority Uighurs — though there is no official prohibition under the country's counterterrorism law against renting property to Uighurs.

A Chinese landlord was arrested on terror charges for renting out his home to ethnic minority Uighurs.
The landlord was arrested under the country's counter-terrorism law, which took effect in early 2016.
And while the law makes no mention of prohibitions against renting property to Uighurs, the minority group is often racially profiled, and is subjected to some of the

A Chinese landlord was arrested on terror charges for renting out his home to ethnic Uighurs, as the government continues to expand its surveillance of members of the minority group.

Police in central China's Henan province arrested a Han Chinese man who had privately rented out his home in

The government has been closely monitoring the movements of the minority group, and the group regularly faces restrictions based on their ethnicity.

According to the World Uyghur Congress, a

And it's not only their movements inside the country that are heavily surveilled.

The Chinese government has demanded Xinjiang residents both inside and outside the country to hand over their passports.

A young Uighur man studying at a university outside of Xinjiang told Radio Free Asia that the government's crackdown on Uighur passports prompted him to flee the country.

China also appears to be compiling a database of all its Uighurs living in the country and abroad as the plight of the minority group has gained global attention.

Earlier this month, a UN panel said it was "deeply concerned" by China's arbitrary detention of up to 1 million Uighurs in detention centers called "re-education camps." But China continues to deny the existence of these camps, despite growing witness testimony and surveillance footage of the centers.

pulse