Fighting terror a priority for 2016
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CHINA’S chief prosecutor said yesterday that battling infiltration, subversion and sabotage by hostile forces is a key priority this year, with terrorists, separatists and religious extremists all in his crosshairs.
Other priorities include organizational crimes and extreme violence by individuals, Procurator-General Cao Jianming said in his work report to the annual session of the national legislature.
Cao also listed combatting cybercrime and ensuring national sovereignty in cyberspace as the areas topping the list of 2016 priorities.
Chief Justice Zhou Qiang was equally clear on his targets for the year ahead as he delivered a work report on the Supreme People’s Court at the ongoing session of the National People’s Congress
“China’s courts will well implement the laws on state security and counter-terrorism and severely punish terrorists and secessionists,” he said.
Last year, 1,419 people in 1,084 cases were found guilty of damaging state security, including those who took part in terrorist attacks and secessionist activities, he said.
The courts also stepped up efforts against those who instigated secessionist activities; who led, organized and took part in terrorist groups; and who spread video and audio products about terrorism, Zhou told national lawmakers.
Prosecutors also took more efforts in prosecuting suspects involved in terrorists attacks, Cao said while delivering a work report on the Supreme People’s Procuratorate.
The SPP supervised prosecutors in Xinjiang and Tibet to better handle security-related problems, and worked with the SPC and Ministry of Public Security on proper application of law on terrorist attacks and criminal cases involving religious extremists, Cao said.
This year, the SPP will make concrete efforts to improve its capacity of safeguarding state security and social stability, Cao vowed in his report.
The SPP will firmly crack down on hostile attempts to infiltrate the country, subvert the government and cause destruction, as well as terrorist attacks, and secessionist and extremist activities.
Other priorities include organizational crimes and extreme violence by individuals, he said.
Last year, Chinese courts convicted more than 1.2 million people in 1.1 million criminal cases, a year-on-year increase of 4 percent, while prosecutors charged almost 1.4 million suspects.
Last month, a senior counter-terrorism official described China’s current anti-terrorism situation as “stable and under control,” but stressed that terrorism is nonetheless permeating further in the country under the influence of international terrorists’ activities.
“Domestic and overseas East Turkistan forces are stepping up their instigating efforts, and there is a growing tendency of activities that are masterminded overseas, organized online and implemented within the country,” said Liu Yuejin, counter-terrorism commissioner of the Ministry of Public Security.
Liu said that “a very few persons with terrorist thinking” are still secretly planning violence and sabotage activities in the country, and violence and terror incidents still occurred occasionally in some parts of Xinjiang in northwest China.
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