Uyghur butcher served 7 years in jail for urging friends not to drink alcohol or smoke

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Uyghur butcher served 7 years in jail for urging friends not to drink alcohol or smoke

A Uyghur butcher serving a seven-year prison sentence in southern Xinjiang for advising friends not to drink alcohol or smoke at a gathering has been released alive and returned to his family, sources with knowledge of the situation said. It marks the first time that one of the roughly 100 jailed Uyghur residents from Xaneriq village had been released alive, said an Uyghur from the area who now lives abroad, but who did not give his name for fea…