Muslim groups boycott Hilton over planned hotel on Uighur mosque
Al Jazeera
Mosque demolished in 2018 in Hotan in Xinjiang is one of many damaged or destroyed by China in campaign against Uighurs.
A group of more than 40 Muslim-American civil rights organisations in the United States announced on Thursday a campaign to boycott Hilton Worldwide over what they said is the corporation’s plan to construct a hotel on the site of a Uighur mosque bulldozed by authorities in China’s Xinjiang region.
Speaking at a news conference held in front of the Hilton headquarters in Virginia, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organisation at the forefront of the initiative, said they had been “negotiating indirectly” with the hotel group appealing them to cancel the construction plan, but that talks had gone “to no avail”.
“Today, we are announcing a global boycott campaign against Hilton,” Nihad Awad executive director of CAIR said.
