China detains Muslim women for using WhatsApp, labels them as pre-criminals, says new book
India Today
A new book titled “In The Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony” has revealed that China has been detaining women belonging to Muslim ethnic groups for months for cyber ‘pre-crimes’ such as accessing WhatsApp and a school Gmail account.
China has been detaining women belonging to Muslim ethnic groups for months for cyber ‘pre-crimes’ such as accessing messaging app WhatsApp and a school Gmail account. The Chinese authorities label such "violators" as pre-criminals. A new book titled “In The Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony” has made these revelations.
The book has cited the case of Vera Zhou, student at the University of Washington, who was recently detained for using a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to open her school Gmail account and submit homework in China's Xinjiang, according to a report published by Business Insider.
