Under the “Pair Up and Become Family” programme, more than a million public servants are assigned families in Xinjiang they must visit and stay with regularly. Officials were now being pressured to increase the frequency and length of their homestays, the government worker said. TroublemakerUnder the “Become Family” programme, the surveillance extends to within the home, local Muslims claim. A shuttered mosque in Kashgar with its crescent removed from the dome’s peak, in Xinjiang, in August 2019. Ms Liu, the cadre, said officials pay for food and presents for their families out of their own pockets.

Source: The Irish Times December 17, 2019 18:23 UTC