Police are reportedly cutting too-long dresses off ethnic minority women in the middle of streets in China

• Uighur women in China's Xinjiang province have had their dresses cut by police in public, photos appear to show.
• China subjects Uighurs to extreme rules in an effort to crack down on religious extremism.
• Hundreds of thousands, if not one million, Uighurs are currently being held in "re-education centers" to indoctrinate them with the will of the Chinese Communist Party and abandon their traditional Muslim beliefs.
• Surveillance is also pervasive with tens of thousands of facial recognition cameras and biometric data used to monitor residents.

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Women in China's Xinjiang province have reportedly had their long tops and dresses cut by police in a continued campaign targeting ethnic Uighurs.

In an attempt to crack down on religious extremism, authorities in Xinjiang have targeted almost any form of religious expression by Uighur Muslims. 

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