A man from China’s ethnic Uighur minority has been sentenced to seven years in jail for watching a “sensitive” film about Muslim migration, according to Radio Free Asia.
As a security chief, I am having a hard time explaining these charges to the people in my village.
“All of them were over 40 years of age,” said Hesen Eysa, security chief for Yasin’s Karasu village.
Authorities claim Eli Yasin, from Chaghraq in Aksu, Xinjiang, is suspected of planning to go abroad with members of his family “to wage jihad”.