Senator Rubio: China is depriving Uyghurs of their ‘humanity’ catholicnewsagency.com

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) lambasted the Chinese authorities for restricting the religious practices of the largely-Muslim Uyghur population, at a Wednesday hearing.

“When a regime deprives a people of their right to practice their faith freely, they are depriving those people of their full humanity,” Rubio said in a prepared statement read by Tony Perkins, vice chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), at the commission’s hearing Wednesday on forced labor in Xinjiang, China…

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