The Chinese regime, while continuing its arbitrary detention practices in East Turkistan, admitted in a recently published document that it has detained numerous East Turkistanis since the beginning of the year under various pretexts.
According to China Global Television Network (CGTN), on October 12, 2023, the so-called "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region" government in East Turkistan announced to the public a behavior pattern defined as "eight typical violations of the law on the Internet."
In the announcement, the Region Internet and Technology Department, as part of the "rewarded espionage" campaign initiated by the Network Security Inspection Bureau, noted that it monitored and investigated illegal online activities based on data from so-called "public opinion" and initiated criminal investigations against individuals who violated the law.
It is alleged that some of the individuals punished were convicted this year in May and June on charges such as "undermining national unity," "inciting international discrimination and insults," and "spreading messages inciting national hatred" on social media platforms.
However, since the 2009 Urumqi massacre, China has employed all kinds of false accusations and disguises to suppress the region's population. But, as reported in Chinese media, the punitive measures for the so-called "charges" mentioned are very lenient. The detention period doesn't exceed 15 days, and the fines do not go beyond 1,000 Chinese yuan. In stark contrast, the people of East Turkistan are arbitrarily detained for years under absurd pretexts, enduring torture in internment camps, and serving long prison sentences.
Furthermore, in 2021, the "Xinjiang Police Documents," obtained from the Konashehir Police Archives Website, which were revealed with the publication of nearly 5,000 documents and photographs by the BBC, also confirm that China has unjustly detained millions of people arbitrarily. These documents were labeled "Top Secret" by China.