Xinjiang Hepatitis Students Battle School Ban – RFA

From Radio Free Asia:

A group of high-school students from the northwestern, mainly Muslim Uyghur region of Xinjiang is still fighting their exclusion from school because they are infected with the Hepatitis B virus.

Authorities in the regional capital of Urumqi announced Thursday that seven ethnic minority Uyghur families who sued the local government over the expulsions had withdrawn their lawsuit.

But a hepatitis non-government group has said they were coerced into doing so by local officials, police and employers. [Full Text]

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