On the 7th September, nearly 300 Rohingya refugees came ashore in Indonesia after being at sea for almost 6 months. The group included 181 women and 14 children and were rescued by local Muslims on Sumatra’s northern coast.

On the 4th of September 2020 the Guardian Newspaper reported on the first-hand account of a Uighur Muslim teacher who was forced to undergo multiple birth control measures after repeated threats upon her life and that of her family.

On the 27th August, ‘Buzzfeed News’ published the findings from its investigation based on thousands of satellite images of the region of ‘Xinjiang’ which revealed a “vast and growing infrastructure for long-term detention and incarceration” of Uyghur, Kazakh and other Muslims by the tyrannical Chinese regime.

Since the fall of the communist power and the independence of Kyrgyzstan, the country is trying to create the impression that Kyrgyzstan is a secular state which is no longer influenced by the idea of ​​atheism and guarantees everyone their right of belief. But in reality, it looks different. In recent years the number of mosques, Islamic educational institutions and madrassas has increased.