Report in Global Times, Mar 28, 2017 at 15:03
Public security officials in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region released information on 11 new cases involving suspects who spread extremist, separatist and other illegal content online, as efforts to clean up cyberspace in the region continue.
The regional public security bureau arrested 12 people between January and March, Xinjiang’s cyberspace administration office announced via its WeChat account on Monday.
The suspects allegedly spread information on terrorism, violence, religious extremism and separatism, as well as rumors, “fake news,” insults and defamatory statements, the report said.
Four of the 11 cases involved pro-terrorist content, two on religious extremism, two which allegedly spread “fake” reports on terrorism and one on an alleged hostile attack on government stabilization measures.
Local authorities revealed similar cases in February. In February and March, most of the content involved terrorism and religious extremism.
Anyone who uses cell phones, the Internet, mobile storage devices or other media to disseminate terrorist or extremist ideas will be charged with terror offenses, according to Xinjiang’s anti-terrorism regulations, adopted in 2016.
Xinjiang is expected to approve a regional cyber-security regulation as early as the end of March, Dong Xinguang, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Xinjiang People’s Congress, previously told the Global Times.http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1039926.shtml
Comments are closed.