China demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang in recent years: Australian think tank

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An Australian think tank said Friday that Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang. Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been incarcerated in camps across the northwestern territory, with residents pressured to give up traditional and religious activities. Around 16,000 mosques had been destroyed or damaged, according to an Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report based on satellite imagery documenting hundreds of sacred sites and statistical modelling.