White paper: extremism curbed in Xinjiang
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A white paper issued by China’s State Council Information Office said penetration of religious extremism has been curbed in accordance with the law in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
According to the white paper titled “Human Rights in Xinjiang — Development and Progress,” international religious extremism has been spreading in Xinjiang in recent years.
“Extremist forces distort Islamic theology, bewitching the public, and force their extremist ideas onto others,” said the white paper released yesterday.
“They have masterminded large-scale incidents of violence and terrorism, injuring and killing innocent people of any ethnic group, even their fellow Islamic clerics and Muslims.”
To ensure local citizens’ right to freedom of religious belief, Xinjiang has worked hard to combat extremism, implementing the Regulations on Anti-extremism of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, strengthening management of religious affairs in accordance with the law, and preventing and neutralizing religious extremism.
The white paper also said that life and property are to be respected and protected in Xinjiang. Since the 1990s, violent terrorists, nationalist separatists, and religious extremists have plotted and committed a series of violent terrorist crimes, causing loss of life to and damaging the property of people of all ethnic groups.
In 2009, the July 5 riot in Xinjiang’s capital city Urumqi killed 197, injured more than 1,700, and caused colossal damage to property.
The terrorist attack at the Kunming railway station in Yunnan Province on March 1, 2014 caused 31 deaths and injured another 141.
Xinjiang has taken a series of measures designed to strike against violent terrorist crimes, strengthen social protection and control, modernize the governance system and capacity, and safeguard the lives and property of all the people of the autonomous region, whatever their ethnic group.
These measures include the promulgation and implementation of the Measures on Enforcement of the Anti-Terrorism Law of the People’s Republic of China.
The white paper also noted that the right to fair trial is maintained in Xinjiang.
Judicial organs in Xinjiang uphold the principles of legally prescribed punishment, presumption of innocence, and evidentiary adjudication, and fully protect citizens’ right to fair trial at all stages from investigation to prosecution, to trial and execution. A platform for judicial openness was established to release information on judicial proceedings, so as to ensure the public’s right to information.
“Xinjiang fully respects and effectively guarantees the civil rights of its citizens in accordance with the law,” the white paper read.
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