welcome to smart jails

7-17-19  As part of their curricula the young are taught at schools that believing in God is abnormal; teachers encourage them to report on their religious relatives.  https://bitterwinter.org/primary-schools-indoctrinate-children-to-hate-religion/

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7-18-2019  Xi’s China wants to  “increase political vigilance and strictly prevent hostile forces from infiltrating, destroying and smearing the Party and the government.”  Jails should “intensify ‘de-radicalization’ work; strictly deal with, according to law, criminals who endanger national security, who belong to a xie jiao, who are involve in gang crime or evil, who have a major social impact, and who have restrictions on the commutation of their sentences; and defend the country’s major battle achievements of counter-terrorism and stability maintenance, punishment of corruption, cleaning up gang crime and eliminating evil.”  It is particularly important to “strengthen policy support for prisons in the Xinjiang region and further implement related policy measures.”

  But how will Uyghurs in Xinjiang, members of banned religious movements labeled as xie jiao, and other “criminals” be re-educated? The CCP has the answer.  Jail authorities should “conscientiously organize the study of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,” which will reform inmates into “citizens who ideologically and emotionally identify with the Party’s leadership, identify with their great motherland, identify with the Chinese nation, identify with Chinese culture, and identify with the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.”

  Jails should “emphasize ideological education; guide criminals to establish a correct worldview, outlook on life and system of values. Increase education on admitting guilt and showing repentance (…) Implement psychological correction (…) and reshape criminals to have healthy character.”   https://bitterwinter.org/xi-jinpings-smart-jails/

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-Urumqi

12-26-2018  In recent days our reporter has interviewed several of those who were forced to move.  He tells the story of their pain and also uncovers other, previously unknown aspects of harassment by the authorities in Xinjiang.

  One worker interviewed was an Uyghur man who had been working part-time in Tacheng, a city in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of Xinjiang, near the border with Kazakhstan. In mid-August, he was arrested by local police and taken in for questioning. After six hours of detention, police informed him that he had two days to leave Tacheng and return to his place of origin in Kashgar, a city in the southwest of Xinjiang.

  This Uyghur man had been working in Tacheng for more than a year. His boss had even tried to help him get a temporary residence permit, but the police refused his application. Because his official residence was not local, and he was an ethnic minority, he was forbidden to work in Tacheng.    https://bitterwinter.org/muslims-forced-out-of-job/

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1-14-19   Building on measures implemented in Tibet, Chen transformed the Uyghurs’ homeland into a police state. In early 2017, the recruitment of police forces increased exponentially, in line with efforts to establish close to 7,500 “convenience police stations” across the region to stabilize Xinjiang with a “grid-like” security apparatus. These securitization efforts also draw on technological development: a surveillance network using facial recognition, the collection of citizens’ biometric data, GPS tracking of private vehicles, and spyware in Uyghurs’ smartphones.   https://warontherocks.com/2019/01/counter-extremism-in-xinjiang-understanding-chinas-community-focused-counter-terrorism-tactics/