Dharamshala: Just days ahead of 87th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on 6 July, the Lhasa-based Municipality Public Security Bureau issued a public notice promising hefty rewards for Tibetans reporting on dissenting views and pro-independence activities which are deemed “criminal offences against state security” as per the notice issued.
Reliable sources of Department of Security (CTA) reported that the said notice was issued on 4 July claiming to reward 300,000 Chinese Yuan ($44,840) as a monetary incentive to Tibetans in Lhasa in exchange for reporting Tibetan activism in the capital.
The notice listed 12 points pertaining to anti-China activity and dissenting opinions which the Chinese authority construe as “illegal and criminal activities.” These activities range from speech, writing, and audio or video materials that are considered to have sabotaging impacts on the communist policy. Listed below are the 12 points notice categorised as ‘criminal offence’ by the Public Security Bureau in Lhasa. Click here for precise notice in Chinese.
- Illegal and criminal clues that spread rumours, defame and slander the state power and the socialist system, and endanger national sovereignty.
- Illegal and criminal clues on publishing and disseminating harmful remarks, publications, audio and video materials, undermining ethnic unity, creating ethnic division, inciting ethnic hatred and undermining national unity.
- Illegal and criminal clues of collusion with overseas institutions, organizations and individuals, stealing, spying on, selling, and illegally providing state secrets or intelligence.
- Illegal and criminal clues that use the name of religion to endanger national security, collude with foreign forces to interfere in domestic religious affairs, distort religious teachings, or use other methods to incite and advocate violence and other extremist and ethnic discrimination ideas.
- Illegal and criminal clues of funding or assisting hostile forces or other organizations or individuals to endanger national security.
- Illegal and criminal clues of making, selling, distributing, listening to, reading, storing and other publications that promote terrorism, extremist publications, audio and video materials or other items, hoarding or wearing flags, clothing, utensils, souvenirs, etc. containing terrorism and extremism contents, financing terrorist activities and separatist sabotage activities.
- Illegal and criminal clues that use the Internet to create and spread rumours, or publish or spread incitement to harmful speeches that endanger political security and social stability, download, produce, disseminate and store anti-propaganda information through the Internet or mobile phones, mobile storage media, e-readers, etc., and gathering the crowd to preach and spread the idea of “Tibet independence”.
- Illegal and criminal clues that use the power of family and clan to run rampant in villages, oppress the masses, control grass-roots political power, manipulate and interfere with grass-roots public affairs, and interfere with and undermine rural governance and social stability.
- Illegal and criminal clues of illegal operation, transportation, trading, storage of explosive, flammable, toxic, corrosive hazardous chemicals and sales, storage, and provision of hazardous chemicals, and selling, storing and providing scattered gasoline and diesel in violation of the “Administrative Measures for the Sales of Fragmented Oil Products in the Tibet Autonomous Region” (Order No. 117 of the People’s Government of the Autonomous Region).
- Illegal and criminal clues on venting anger or taking revenge on society, prepare clues to commit extremist violent crimes such as murder, injury, arson, explosion, poisoning, etc.
- Illegal and criminal clues of illegally manufacturing, trading, transporting, mailing, storing, possessing, and possession of guns (including parts), ammunition, explosives, dangerous chemicals, and controlled knives.
- Other various illegal and criminal acts seriously affect people’s sense of security.