
Officials in China's restive Xinjiang province have introduced financial rewards for informants who alert authorities to sightings of men with large beards or women wearing veils, in an effort to clamp down on separatism.
"Project Beauty" will give out cash payments of up to ?4,750 to informants who report on citizens with substantial facial hair, wear "weird clothes" or carry banknotes etched with religious slogans.
"The notice on the website is a more detailed regulation based on a previous notice from public security authorities," an official from the local commission of legal and political affairs told China's English language newspaper Global Times.
Uighur separatist fears
China's largest ethnic minority, the Muslim Turkic-speaking Uighurs, frequently clash with the Han Chinese majority in Xinjiang province, China's most westerly region.
Fears are mounting within the ruling Communist party that a Uighur-led separatist movement is gaining traction and receiving support from foreign Islamic terrorist groups.
Residents of some Xinjiang cities are now being barred from entering official buildings and banks unless they are clean-shaven or without veils.
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