Violence erupted Friday in Hexi, a city in the Ningxia region, after a mosque was declared an "illegal religious site". About 1 000 officers came to destroy it.
A Hong Kong-based body for democracy and human rights said a group of Muslims fought police trying to destroy a mosque in northwest China.
It said 50 people were injured and more than 100 detained after several hundred members of China's Hui Muslim minority tried to stop the demolition. Police destroyed the mosque after the clashes.
The Hui are one of several Muslim minority groups in China. They include the descendants of Muslim immigrants from Central Asia, members of the majority ethnic Han Chinese who converted to Islam and several other groups. (Mel / Abna.ir / ddhongkong.org). *
