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Hundreds of Muslims took to the streets in Weizhou in Ningxia, China, to demonstrate against plans to pull down a mosque there. The local government said the building had been put up without the correct planning permission, but some suspect the attempted demolition is part of a wider effort to target religion in China.

大象传媒 Minute looks at Islam in China, where the constitutionally-enshrined freedom of religion is sometimes restricted in practice.

(Photo: Chinese Muslims offer prayers during Eid al-Fitr at a mosque in Beijing, June 2017, Credit: Nicolas Asfouri/AFP/Getty Images)