Arsenal distance themselves from Mesut Özil's comments on Uighurs’ plight in China

Arsenal has released a statement on Chinese social media website Weibo to distance club from comments me by star player and highest earner Mesut Ozil. Ozil, on his social media, posted a mess highlighting atrocities committed by China on Uighurs in Xinjiang and how Muslim countries have t done eugh to speak up.

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Arsenal stand away

club is present on multiple social media websites and has millions of followers online. However, statement was released only on Weibo. As per reports in a leing news daily in UK,  statement re, "Regarding comments me by Mesut Özil on social media, Arsenal must make a clear statement.  content published is Özil’s personal opinion. As a football club, Arsenal has always hered to principle of t involving itself in politics."

post on his social media re, "East Turkistan, bleeding wound of Ummah, resisting against persecutors trying to separate m from ir religion. y burn ir Qurans. y shut down ir mosques. y ban ir schools. y kill ir holy men. men are forced into camps and ir families are forced to live with Chinese men. women are forced to marry Chinese men. But Muslims are silent. y won’t make a ise. y have abandoned m. Don’t y kw that giving consent for persecution is persecution itself?”

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club clearing air on issue is hypocritical in nature since a few days ago, in run-up to British General Elections, defender Hector Bellerin tweeted asking people to vote and at end of tweet, used an towards Boris Johnson. club h t released a statement n.

China has faced growing international condemnation for setting up a vast network of camps in Xinjiang aimed at homogenising Uighur population to reflect China's majority Han culture. Rights groups and experts say more than one million Uighurs and people of or mostly Muslim ethnic mirities have been rounded up in camps in tightly-controlled region.

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After initially denying camps existed, China describes m as vocational schools aimed at dampening allure of Islamist extremism and violence. Turkey, which takes its name from Turkic people who migrated from central Asia, is home to Uighur community and has regularly raised concerns about situation in Xinjiang.

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