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China Deports Tourists For Watching 'terrorism' Videos by mayorchelsea(m): 12:42pm On Jul 19, 2015 |
China has deported a group 20 foreign tourists
from Britain, South Africa and India for
watching video clips that allegedly advocated
terrorism and religious extremism, the official
state media reported.
At least two of the tourists, however, said they
were actually just watching a documentary
about the 13th century Mongol leader Genghis
Khan.
Xinhua news agency said late on Saturday
that the foreigners watched an unspecified
documentary in a hotel room and later some of
them watched video clips that advocated
terrorism in the border region of Inner
Mongolia. The foreigners said it was a
misunderstanding.
The news agency cited the foreign affairs
office of Ordos city, where police had stopped
the 10 South Africans, 9 Britons and one
Indian on July 10 as they were going to fly to
Xi’an, home of the ancient terracotta warriors
sculptures and their next stop on a 47-day
tour of the country.
Britain’s Press Association reported that the
documentary was a BBC production on
Genghis Khan, citing a statement from two of
the British tourists, husband and wife Hoosain
and Tahira Jacobs. They said that the video
“may have mistakenly been deemed as
propaganda material”.
“It can only be assumed that junior officials
who made the initial arrest in Inner Mongolia
made a mistake, due to perhaps their
unfamiliarity of the English language,” the
statement said.
The Jacobs also said that the group was a
mixture of Muslims, Christians and Hindus
who had travelled together in the past,
including to Israel and the United States. They
had visited the Genghis Khan Mausoleum in
Ordos the day before they were stopped at the
airport.
Xinhua said that the foreigners were criminally
detained on July 11 in connection with a law
that “stipulates punishment for allegedly
organising, leading or joining terrorist groups”.
It said the nine “admitted to their legal acts
and repented,” without elaborating. It said
police treated the case leniently and deported
them on Saturday.
The other 11 were deported on Wednesday.
Calls to the foreign affairs office in Ordos by
the AP news agency rang unanswered
Sunday. A man on duty at Ordos police, who
only identified his surname, Han, said he had
no information on the case.
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Re: China Deports Tourists For Watching 'terrorism' Videos by ELTON123(m): 12:44pm On Jul 19, 2015 |
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Re: China Deports Tourists For Watching 'terrorism' Videos by samzheee(m): 12:44pm On Jul 19, 2015 |
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