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Muslim Council of Britain challenges forced Covid cremations in Sri Lanka
Country insists all people who die of virus are cremated even if it violates religious beliefs
The Muslim Council of Britain is launching a legal challenge to the Sri Lankan government’s policy that all people who die of Covid must be cremated, even in violation of their religious beliefs.
The insistence on cremation has caused great distress among the country’s Muslim minority. Islam stipulates that the dead must be buried.
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