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General Category => World News => Topic started by: EC on June 20, 2013, 08:08:18 am

Title: China jails 11 for extremist crimes in Muslim west
Post by: EC on June 20, 2013, 08:08:18 am
Via AP: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/china-jails-11-extremist-crimes-muslim-west

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BEIJING (AP) — Chinese courts have sentenced 11 people for inciting religious extremism and related crimes in the northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang, just weeks ahead of the anniversary of bloody ethnic rioting that spread through the region four years ago.

The Justice Ministry's official newspaper Legal Daily said Thursday that Aihetaimu Heli was given the harshest sentence of six years in jail for uploading to the Internet materials promoting jihad and ethnic hatred. The sentence on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic prejudice was handed down Wednesday in the far-western city of Aksu, the paper said.

In the city of Kashgar, an additional eight people were sentenced to between two to five years for creating a public nuisance after breaking into homes and destroying 17 television sets in what the paper called a religious frenzy.

More at link.

Hey, what is the sense of having a police state if you ain't going to use it?
Title: Re: China jails 11 for extremist crimes in Muslim west
Post by: mountaineer on June 21, 2013, 12:39:39 pm
Hey, what is the sense of having a police state if you ain't going to use it?
A quote from Valerie Jarrett?   ^-^
Title: Re: China jails 11 for extremist crimes in Muslim west
Post by: EC on June 21, 2013, 12:53:06 pm
A quote from Valerie Jarrett?   ^-^

Holder - and I just typo'd him as Holer.  :laugh: