Chinese court jails a man for 6 years for growing beard
BEIJING: A court in China’s mainly Muslim East Turkistan (Xinjiang) region has sentenced a man to six years in prison for “provoking trouble” and growing a beard, a practise discouraged by local authorities, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The court in the desert oasis city of Kashgar sentenced the 38-year-old Uyghur to six years, while…