China’s authorities have achieved from Apple’s removal of the world’s most popular app to read the Koran from the Chinese App Store. It is reported by BBC News .
The Quran Majeed application is available worldwide in the App Store and has almost 150 thousand reviews. According to the publication, the company closed access to the application after the request of officials of the PRC for “Placing illegal religious texts.”
Beijing refused to comment on the situation. Apple explained that they are obliged to comply with local laws, even if they do not agree with the position of local governments.
Chinese Communist Party officially recognizes Islam as a religion in the country. However, the republic was already accused of tougher discriminatory policies regarding the Muslim population in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Area (Suar).
In early March, the NEWLINES INSTITUTE analytical center said that the Chinese authorities violated each of the prohibitions of the UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and Punishment for Him. What is happening with Muslims-Uigurs and other Muslim minorities in the Sinzian-Uygur region of China can be considered extermination.
On October 6, the former police detective of the PRC, who fled to Europe, said how the Chinese authorities are tortured by the Muslims prisoners, trying to extract confessions. According to police officers, detainees beaten, torture with electricity and subjected to group rape so that they take the blame for terrorism.
Because of the Genocide of Uigur, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Nancy Pelosi called on the international community to boycott the Olympic Games in China in 2022. In her opinion, the “heads of leading countries of the world” should refuse to participate in this sporting event.