China says will pay rewards for online terrorist tip-offs
China says it will pay up to 100,000 yuan ($15,200) to anyone who reports online “terrorist” content, after handing out two million yuan worth of rewards last year.
“The Internet has become a channel for terrorists to spread extremist religious ideas, provoke ethnic conflicts and advocate separatism,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted an unnamed source from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) as saying on Monday.
Encouraging the public to provide tip-offs via a telephone hotline, the source said Twitter-like microblogs and popular instant messaging services such as WeChat are among tools used by terrorists to “brainwash” young women and children.
According to the report, the CAC received over 20,000 reports in 2015 and gave out two million yuan worth of rewards in total. This year, valuable tip-offs could receive up to 100,000 yuan each.
Last December, Beijing called for a crackdown on online audio and video recordings used by terrorists, after the Daesh terrorist group purportedly released a Chinese-language song to recruit militants.
The Chinese government says it faces a serious threat from militants and separatists in the mainly Muslim region of Xinjiang.
The Chinese government also claims that the Turkic ethnic group in the region is separatist, and that some groups in the Uighur community are already attempting to establish an independent state.
Rights groups have long complained that China’s restrictive policies have led to escalated ethnic tensions in Xinjiang, where clashes between government forces and locals have left hundreds killed over the past years.
The Uighur briefly declared independence twice before, in 1933 and 1944. The region, however, was brought under the complete control of China in 1949.
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is a large and resource-rich area in the northwest of the country.
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