Uighur Muslim detained in Morocco 'fears deportation to China'

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Doha ultimately allowed Yusuf to extend his stay in Doha while seeking asylum from a third country. He was later given permission to fly to the United States.

Turkey, which hosts one of the world's largest Uighur populations outside of China, has recently faced accusations of deporting Uighurs despite its public support of the community.

Mutliple Uighur Muslims have told reporters they were ordered to leave the country after attempts to renew their residence permits were rejected.

Ankara claims it does not deport anyone back to China if they are at risk of persecution in the country.

Officials said Zinnetgul Tursun, a Uighur woman deported from Turkey earlier this year, had entered Turkey illegally and was sent back to Tajikistan, whose embassy claimed her as a citizen.

Activists fear Tajikistan is acting under orders from Beijing to facilitate the deportaiton of Uighurs through its territory.

Beijing is embroiled in an ongoing campaign to force China's 20-million-strong Uighur Muslim population to conform with Chinese culture and the state.

While China has denied detaining innocent citizens in detention camps, human rights organisations say at least a million Muslims, mostly of the Uighur ethnicity, have been imprisoned in "concentration" camps in the northwestern Xinjiang province.

Beijing claims the detainees are in fact "students" enrolled in "training" to reverse the effects of Islamist radicalisation and "reintigrate" into Chinese society.

Uighur activists insist that while a small minority of the province's population has been involved in separatist violence and fighting with extremist groups, those detained by the Chinese authorities are innocent citizens.

Human rights groups say that Uighurs and other Muslim minorities endure political indoctrination at these camps.

International recognition of the incarceration and human rights abuses has been sparse, especially from governments of Muslim majority nations.

Thirty-seven mostly Muslim countries came under fire last month for signing a letter defending China's human rights record. The letter was addressed to the UN Human Rights Council in response to another document denouncing China's treatment of the Uighurs, which was signed by twenty-two countries.

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