While the regime blocks VPN connections to servers abroad to enter prohibited web pages, more of 1.400 people were sentenced last year for terrorism
A group of Chinese prisoners watch television – AFP
Coinciding with the annual meeting of the Popular National Assembly, The authoritarian Chinese regime has tightened repression, reinforcing censorship on the Internet and folding sentences for separatist terrorism.
As happened last year during these same dates, the «Great Wall» Cybernetics has even blocked payment connections to foreign servers, known as VPN, They were widely used to access prohibited web pages such as YouTube, Facebook o Twitter. This block affects entrepreneurs, scientists, journalists, tourists and, In short, To anyone who wants to enter Internet portals not controlled by Beijing or with sensitive information for the regime. Due to the damages that this censorship causes its businesses, Foreign cameras present in China already protested last year, But his complaints have fallen into oblivion.
The repression has also been reinforced in the judicial field. According to the data of the Supreme Court presented this Sunday to the National Assembly, Last year more than 1.400 people for terrorism and separatist activities, twice as 2014. The repression has worsened in the lift regions of Tibet and Xinjiang, This last Muslim majority and where hundreds of people have died in recent times in attacks and clashes with the police. «Last year we increased our efforts to fight against those instigated secessionist activities and directed, They organized or participated in terrorist groups that disseminated subversive videos and messages», The President of the Supreme Court explained, Zhou Qiang, before the Assembly, The organic parliament of the Chinese regime where most of its 3.000 Deputies belong to the Communist Party.
