"We are trying to get in touch with CAC and relevant Chinese authorities to get this issue resolved as we had close to a million users for our app in China that have been impacted," Hasan Shafiq Ahmed, head of growth at Pakistan Data Management (PDMS), told Business Insider. PDMS' app Quran Majeed is one of the two apps that have been taken off Apple's App Store in compliance with Chinese government requests, according to Apple Censorship, an activist-led website tracking the app store worldwide. While the Chinese government keeps a close eye on the internet through strict controls over online speech and content, it is also known for targeting the country's religious minorities, particularly the Uyghur Muslim community. In this context, government requests to take down the apps raise further concerns around religious persecution in China. Why were the…
