Uighurs Targeted by Authorities After Tiananmen Terror Attack

In the past year, his first in the Chinese capital, street vendor Imam Hasan has hardly experienced a warm Beijing welcome.

Authorities have regularly confiscated the flat-bed tricycle on which he sells walnuts, raisins and other snacks from his native Xinjiang, in China's far northwest.

As an ethnic Uighur, from the Muslim, Turkic-speaking people who are often rejected by Beijing's landlords and hotels, Imam could find accommodation only in the distant suburbs, a daily two-hour cycle ride from central market areas.

And now he faces new hassles.

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