- Title: Pompeo slams China over alleged persecution of muslim woman
- Date: 2nd October 2019
- Summary: VATICAN CITY (OCTOBER 2, 2019) (REUTERS) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO AT SYMPOSIUM IN THE VATICAN (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO, SAYING: "In April of last year, Mrs. Dawut, a 30-something mother of three, was summoned to the local police station in Xinjiang, China. She was shackled, interrogated, and taken to an internment camp, where she was forced to recite Chinese propaganda and beaten for giving an ailing fellow prisoner her food. She was injected with unknown drugs. All of this for the crime of being Muslim, for worshipping her God, for exercising her conscience. Her husband managed to advocate for her release. Before she left the camp, she was forced to renounce her faith and promise not to speak about what had happened to her. Chinese officials monitored her family and forced them to eat pork. But Mrs. Dawut was one of the lucky ones. She made it to the United States. In front of that crowd in New York City, she cried while recounting her torture. But she wasn't alone, God was with her and America was with her, too. It's what we do, and it's who we are." AUDIENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO, SAYING: "When the state rules absolutely moral norms are crushed completely, that's why the Islamic Republic of Iran has jailed, tortured and killed thousands of its own citizens for four decades. It's why China has poured more than a million Uighur Muslims, Muslims like Mrs. Dawut, in internment camps and it's why it throws Christian pastors in jail." POMPEO AT SYMPOSIUM
- Embargoed: 16th October 2019 23:09
- Keywords: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo muslim woman China alleged persecution
- Location: VATICAN CITY
- City: VATICAN CITY
- Country: Vatican City
- Topics: Fundamental Rights/Civil Liberties,Government/Politics
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- Story Text:U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday (October 2) blasted China over its treatment of Uighur Muslims.
Pompeo, who is on a three-day trip to Italy, was speaking during a Vatican conference which took place in the shadow of the political crisis back home.
He is due to meet Pope Francis on Thursday (October 3) morning. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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