Uighurs Targeted by Authorities After Tiananmen Terror Attack

Muslims from the west of China

In the past year, his first in the Chinese capital, street vendor Imam Hasan has hardly experienced a warm Beijing welcome.

Authorities have regularly confiscated the flat-bed tricycle on which he sells walnuts, raisins and other snacks from his native Xinjiang, in China's far northwest.

As an ethnic Uighur, from the Muslim, Turkic-speaking people who are often rejected by Beijing's landlords and hotels, Imam could find accommodation only in the distant suburbs, a daily two-hour cycle ride from central market areas.

And now he faces new hassles.