Student arrested for holding terror contents

PINGNAN: The judicial department in Pingnan, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has approved the arrest of a college student suspected of promoting terrorism for downloading terrorist videos and audios, according to media reports.
The student, surnamed He, possessed a total of 64 audio and video materials in his cell phone, with content including preaching of terrorism, and bloody violence that involved weapon shooting and killing, according to supervision authorities.
The materials were used by him as a means of escape from the pressure of study during college, the Beijing Daily reported on Saturday, and instead of distributing to others, he only held them himself, and had begun downloading them in 2020.
China lists the possession and sharing of terrorist videos and audios as illegal actions, and they are considered an activity of preaching terrorism and extremism, according to the Cybersecurity Law. Even without sharing the materials with others, the authorities said that the videos and audios held by He are extremely harmful and could have undermined the stability of society and public safety. He’s case is still ongoing. This is not the first case of an illegal action regarding the possession or distribution of terrorism-related materials through the internet.
In 2019, a man in Southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality was detained for 15 days after being found holding and disseminating a video of terrorists shooting hostages, according to the domestic news site cnr.cn.
–The Daily Mail-CGTN News exchange item