A Chinese landlord was arrested on terror charges for renting out his home to ethnic minority Muslims

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  • A Chinese landlord was arrested on terror charges for renting out his home to ethnic minority Uighurs. 
  • The landlord was arrested under the country’s counter-terrorism law, which took effect in early 2016.
  • And while the law makes no mention of prohibitions against renting property to Uighurs, the minority group is often racially profiled, and is subjected to some of the strictest surveillance measures in the world

A Chinese landlord was arrested on terror charges for renting out his home to ethnic Uighurs, as the government continues to expand its surveillance of members of the minority group.

Police in central China’s Henan province arrested a Han Chinese man who had privately rented out his home in Zhenping county to three Uighur bread-sellers, according to a notice released by the Zhenping county police obtained by Radio Free Asia

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