Legislators in Xinjiang province – a region of China with a large Muslim population, have approved a ban on women wearing a traditional Islamic garment known as a burqa in public.
Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region has approved a regulation banning the wearing of the burqa in the regional capital of Urumqi.
On this backdrop, many Xinjiang experts have warned that the ban on burqa and the heavy-handed enforcement of it may further provoke the region’s minority Uighurs.