{"id":87289,"date":"2022-11-03T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=87289"},"modified":"2022-11-03T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:03:16","slug":"authorities-in-xinjiang-collect-bodies-of-uyghurs-who-died-during-covid-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/87289-authorities-in-xinjiang-collect-bodies-of-uyghurs-who-died-during-covid-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities in Xinjiang collect bodies of Uyghurs who died during COVID lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Authorities in Xinjiang collected the bodies of Uyghur residents in the northeastern city of Ghulja who died during a strict coronavirus lockdown but did not inform the families of the deceased about whether they handled their remains according to Islamic burial rituals, local officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/3000-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/3000-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/3000-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/3000-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/3000-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/11\/3000-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghulja, known as Yining in Chinese, has been under lockdown since early August due to outbreaks of the COVID-19 virus, in some cases leading to&nbsp;deaths from starvation or lack of access to medicine in the city of roughly a half-million mainly Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims, RFA reported earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities in Xinjiang collected the bodies of Uyghur residents in the northeastern city of Ghulja who died during a strict coronavirus lockdown but did not inform the families of the deceased about whether they handled their remains according to Islamic burial rituals, local officials said. 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