China banned Muslims have long beards and wear the niqab.

The Chinese Government has banned Muslim men keeping long beards and women Muslims wear niqab in Xinjiang area with nearly 10 million Muslims of ethnic Uigur region is located North-Western China.

China has claimed that the new rules are intended to counter what it claims to be a religious extremist, but human rights advocates say the barriers it is oppression of Muslims.

Newsletter «The Independent» English edition published in its Thursday Edition that the move of the Chinese Government to ban the garment Niqab is a plan to fight religious radicalism.