CHINA-INTERNAL: MINORITIES/MONGOLS

 The Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) reported that as part of the effort to maintain social stability during China’s “Two Sessions” --- annual meetings of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and the National People’s Congress --- presently underway in Beijing, the local Public Security Bureau of Urad Middle Banner in western Southern (Inner) Mongolia has arrested and detained more than twenty Mongolian herders since two weeks ago.  In a message posted in Mongolian herders’ WeChat groups by Zou Xinchao, head of the State Security Squad of Urad Middle Banner, the herders were accused of “giving interviews to foreign news media and assisting those who have ulterior motives to frame  and denounce the socialist regime”. Saishingaa, one of the most outspoken herders from Bayan-Ulaan Som of Urad Middle Banner, was taken away from his home by a SWAT team at midnight on March 4, 2016, and placed. under a 15-day detention order for “resisting arrest and providing information to foreign news media and organizations”. The Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) states that 44-year-old Saishingaa has been protesting local officials’ illegal appropriation of his 980-acre grazing land through the use of a forged document.

 






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