Forcing others to wear extremist garments is crime, says China

After banning burqa in restive Xinjiang province where the Uyghur Muslims have a majority, China has amended its criminal law stipulating that forcing others to wear “extremist garments” is 

a crime.

A judicial interpretation issued by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) and the Supreme People’s Court stipulates that forcing others to wear clothes or symbols associated with terrorism and extremism while spreading terrorism and extremism is considered a crime, state-run Global Times reported on Monday.

Anyone who violently forces others to wear such garments will be put under surveillance, detained or face a maximum of three years in prison, the report said.

Neither the amendment nor the interpretation by the SPP provided further details about what constitutes extremist garments or symbols under the law.