‘Nikah’: An astonishing portrait of Uyghur life on the edge of erasure

May 29, 2024 | Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia | By Darren Byler

By the end of 2017, a few months after the period portrayed in the film, tens of thousands of Uyghurs and Kazakhs might have been detained for participating in such weddings. Researcher Peter Irwin’s data analysis showed that more than 1,000 imams and mollas have been detained. Internal police documents from Ürümchi that were obtained by The Intercept revealed even more religious figures being detained. Attending these gatherings, something often framed as “disrupting public order,” became a primary reason for detention among non-leaders.

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