{"id":79184,"date":"2021-10-06T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=79184"},"modified":"2021-10-14T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:18:15","slug":"muslim-groups-call-for-hilton-boycott-over-project-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/79184-muslim-groups-call-for-hilton-boycott-over-project-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim groups call for Hilton boycott over project in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f0\u06f6_\u06f1\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f0\u06f6_\u06f1\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f0\u06f6_\u06f1\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f0\u06f6_\u06f1\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f0\u06f6_\u06f1\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/10\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f1-\u06f1\u06f0-\u06f0\u06f6_\u06f1\u06f8-\u06f0\u06f0-\u06f2\u06f2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>A Muslim civil rights group is calling for a boycott of Hilton hotels over what it says are plans to build a hotel on the site of a bulldozed Uyghur mosque in China.<br>The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other organizations held a news conference Thursday outside the Capital Hilton in Washington announcing the boycott campaign.<br>China has faced international condemnation over persecution of the Muslim Uyghur population in China\u2019s Xinjiang province. Critics say the campaign amounts to cultural genocide, including the detention of Uyghurs in \u201cre-education camps\u201d and the destruction of mosques and other cultural sites.<br>In July, the bipartisan Congressional-Executive Commission on China also called on Hilton to halt the project, which calls for construction of a Hampton Inn.<br>A spokesperson for McLean, Virginia-based Hilton provided a statement Thursday saying the corporation\u2019s franchise model \u201climits Hilton\u2019s involvement in the development and management of properties. However, we can confirm that in 2019 an independent Chinese ownership group purchased a vacant lot through public auction, with plans for commercial development, including a hotel. Hilton was not involved in the site selection.\u201d<br>The United Nations has estimated that more than one million Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities are being held in Xinjiang camps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Muslim civil rights group is calling for a boycott of Hilton hotels over what it says are plans to build a hotel on the site of a bulldozed Uyghur mosque in China.The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other organizations held a news conference Thursday outside the Capital Hilton in Washington announcing the boycott campaign.China &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,30],"tags":[125,2638,205],"class_list":["post-79184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-world","tag-china","tag-hilton","tag-muslim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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