Muslims, police clash in China

A crowd of Muslims fought with police who demolished a mosque in China's northwest, a police employee and a human rights group said yesterday.
The violence erupted Friday in Hexi, a town in the Ningxia region, after the mosque was declared an “illegal religious place” and about 1,000 officers arrived to demolish it, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said.
It said 50 people were injured and more than 100 detained after several hundred members of China's Muslim Hui minority tried to stop the demolition.