China unveils new Xinjiang anti-terror lawChina’s Xinjiang province has unveiled a new anti-terror law that authorities say will focus on curbing and punishing religious extremism that is terrorism’s “ideological” basis, state media reported. According to the rules, public security bureaus and state security organizations should be ready to receive information from the public. The new law, implemented on August 1, is based on China’s primary counterterrorism law passed in December 2015, state media reports said. “The regional law details and supplements the national law in defining terror activities and terrorists, security precautions, intelligence, investigations, countermeasures and punishment,” official news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday. The unveiling of the new law comes in the same week that China, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Tajikistan signed a counter-terrorism law in Urumqi, the capital city of XUAR.

Source: Manila Times August 07, 2016 12:45 UTC