The government-appointed imam of China’s largest and most prestigious mosque has been stabbed to death in an apparent assassination as violence escalates in the ethnically distinct frontier region of Xinjiang, Radio Free Asia said on Thursday.
Jume Tahir was stabbed on the street outside the 600-year-old Id Kah mosque in Kashgar on Wednesday, it said.
The imam was also a senior official in the Xinjiang Islamic Association, a state-run body. In interviews with state media he had blamed “separatists” backed by “hostile forces” for violence in the region.
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