Dozens Arrested in Beijing Anti-Terror Campaign

Dozens Arrested in Beijing Anti-Terror Campaign

Li Jing at the South China Morning Post reports that more than 50 people in have been arrested in Beijing on suspicion of online activities associated with terrorism in the first six months of 2014:

Beijing police arrested more than 50 suspects in the first half of the year for spreading terrorism information online, the Beijing Morning Post reported today.

[…] The announcement came at an internal meeting on Wednesday in which Zhou Qiang, the president of the Supreme People’s Court, promised severe punishments for any terrorist crimes that threatened the nation’s stability, China News Service reported.

Zhou urged judges nationwide to crack down on terrorists, separatists and extremist forces when dealing with cases involving ethnic minorities, the report says. [Source]

Other online activities have also been a major focus for authorities in Beijing. An estimated 30,000 cyber-crime suspects have been apprehended in the city since 2011, Xinhua reports:

Police in Beijing have nabbed some 30,000 suspects involved in cybercrimes in an online crackdown that began in 2011, according to the latest statistics.

According to Beijing’s public security bureau, about 17 million illegal online messages were deleted in the three-year campaign, which also led to the detainment of more than 50 suspects implicated in terrorism activities.

The clamp-down targeted cyber crimes, hackers, online rumor-mongering as well as terrorism and violent content, according to the bureau. By June this year, police had deleted 3,300 terrorism-related messages and 728 audio and video files and e-books, the bureau said. [Source]

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