British Conservative European Parliament member Sajjad Karim has voiced concern over Chinese government’s decision to ban government employees and students from fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n
Published : 07.07.2014 16:32:10<\/p>\n
BRUSSELS \u2013<\/strong> British Conservative European Parliament member Sajjad Karim has voiced concern over Chinese government’s decision to ban government employees and students from fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n In a letter sent to EU’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, Karim called on the European Union to impose sanctions on China if the government does not remove the ban, according to a press statement released by his party.<\/p>\n “I urge you to take this matter up with the Chinese authorities and ask what steps are to be made to help a troubled people and prevent the escalation of violence in Xinjiang,” Karim told Ashton in the letter.<\/p>\n The statement added that Karim, a former candidate for the the European Parliament presidency, also sent a letter to China’s Ambassador to the EU Yang Yanyi to urge Beijing to repeal the ban.<\/p>\n In previous years, the Beijing government has banned fasting “for the health of government employees.” Warning notices have also been published stating that government officials cannot fast.<\/p>\n Certain government agencies have been reported to distribute free food coupons during Ramadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" British Conservative European Parliament member Sajjad Karim has voiced concern over Chinese government’s decision to ban government employees and students from fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}