China will prohibit all foreign organizations and individuals to distribute religious content on the Internet for the sake of protection of national security. This is reported by South China Morning POST.
Now foreigners can speak online about religious ceremonies only under license from the PRC regulator. The rules developed by five departments called “Measures to manage religious information on the Internet” will take effect in March.
New rules say that the list of religious content license applicants must be legal or individuals based in China and recognized Chinese laws, and their chief representative must be a citizen of the PRC.
Earlier, the Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party of China (CCP) Si Jinping declared the importance of “chipping” religion urged to strengthen control over religious activities on the Internet. According to the leader of the PRC, religion is not due to violate the public order and norms of morality or to interfere with educational, judicial and managerial issues or social life.
Official Beijing is not the first time attempts to control the religious life of citizens. The issue of religion became confrontational for the Chinese authorities and Western states due to the PRC policy in relation to Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Area. Muslims living there were forbidden to call children traditional names for them, forced to eat pork and drink alcohol. The network also appeared information on the subsidence of representatives of the title nation in the Uigur family and the promotion of Uygur women decided on sterilization.
In early March, the NEWLINES INSTITUTE analytical center stated that the Chinese authorities violated each of the prohibitions of the UN Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and Punishment for Him. What is happening with Muslims-Uigurs and other Muslim minorities in the Sinzian-Uygur region of China can be considered extermination.
On October 6, the former police detective KNR, who fled to Europe, told how the Chinese authorities are tortured by the Muslims prisoners, trying to extract confessions. According to policemen, detainees beaten, tortured with electricity and subjected to group rapes so that they take the blame for terrorism.