Just watching a picture of the Qur’an in Xinjiang, China enough to classify government officials as dangerous extremists, according to Human Rights Watch a report Released Wed. Chinese police Maintains A “master list” of about 50,000 video, audio and image files they claim to contain Violent and harmful content. Individuals who have copies of those files stored on their own devices have been found It said She was reported and brought in for questioning. Supposedly violent content? Quran readings and wedding songs, according to Human Rights Watch..
Human Rights Watch says it has analyzed about 1,000 files flagged by the policein more than 11 million searches during the nine-month period between 2017 and 2018. More than half (57%) of those flagged files were from media that Human Rights Watch describes as “common religious material,Something that any Muslim anywhere in the world would probably have memorized on their phone. Only 9% of the files reported contain explicit violent content, And only 4% included calls for violence, according to Human Rights Watch.
“The Chinese government’s abusive use of surveillance technology in Xinjiang means that Uighurs who simply store the Qur’an on their phones could lead to police interrogation,” said Maya Wang, China director at Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch says the master list is part of a larger Chinese police database Leaked to the intersection Back in 2019. Although The Intercept previously reported on police surveillance in the area, Human Rights Watch says details of the master list are new.
“The Chinese government outrageously and dangerously combines Islam and violent extremism to justify its abhorrent abuses against Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang,” Wang added.
What else is on the CCP’s main list of Uyghurs?
some The videos, images and audio files included in the main list of harmful content, In reality, It seems to fit most people’s definition of violent or harmful content.
list, for example, It included gruesome videos of beheadings carried out by the Islamic State, Mexican gangs and other armed groups, according to the report.. On the overtly political side, the list also includes media from the East Turkistan independence movement – a group that China considers a separatist organization – and Radio Free Asia, which receive support from the United States government.
Anti-communist material, including a documentary explaining the events of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was also included in the list. News about the Tiananmen Square event is, in general, heavily censored on the Chinese Internet and it is Even restricted in china’s new artificial intelligence chatbots.
Details of the police master list provide new insights into the mechanisms the authorities rely on to carry out their allegedly systematic persecution of the Uyghur ethnic minority. human rights organizations and the media reports claim to Chinese rulefrom him He persecuted and arbitrarily arrested millions of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims. Some of these prisoners were reportedly subjected to torture, forced labor and intense surveillance once they were arrested. Children of detainees are reported to be separated from their parents and placed in prison State-run childcare facilities. The new master list suggests that Uyghurs with copies of banned files could find themselves detained even if they never intended to take any action against the government.
“The criminalization of possession of material deemed extremist even if the accused had no intent to use it to harm others is a particularly serious threat to freedom of belief, privacy, and expression,” Human Rights Watch said. “These rights are guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which China has signed but not ratified.”