Authorities in Ili prefecture Women's Women's Paxton Lynch Jersey , Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region hold a public hearing Tuesday at a stadium to pronounce sentences for 55 involved in terrorist activities. Photo:Sina Authorities in Ili prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region hold a public hearing Tuesday at a stadium to pronounce sentences for 55 involved in terrorist activities. Photo:Sina Authorities in Ili prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region hold a public hearing Tuesday at a stadium to pronounce sentences for 55 involved in terrorist activities. Photo:Sina Authorities in Ili prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region hold a public hearing Tuesday at a stadium to pronounce sentences for 55 involved in terrorist activities. Photo:Sina Authorities in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have acted in a high-profile manner in the ongoing anti-terror campaign through daily raids and public pronouncement of sentences, in an effort to deter offenders.
Police caught five suspects and seized 1.8 tons of material for explosive devices in south Xinjiang's Hotan prefecture on Monday, the Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday.
The report said the alleged terror and extremist group was led by Abliz Dawut. Suspects allegedly watched and listened to terror videos and audio before making explosive devices.
Dawut and his gang members are suspected of making explosive devices the night after the terror attack on a market in Urumqi on May 22 and premeditating a similar terror attack in crowded locations in Hotan Women's Case Keenum Jersey , the report said.
The raid was part of Xinjiang's one-year anti-terrorism campaign, which started Friday, the day after the attack in Urumqi. The campaign considers Xinjiang to be the major battleground and will last until June 2015.
Similar raids were carried out in Aksu, Kashi and Ili prefectures on Monday. Suspects were arrested for allegedly being involved in terrorist attacks, while knives and materials for explosive devices were seized.
Twenty-three terror and religious extremist groups were busted and more than 200 suspects were caught in May in Hotan, Kashi and Aksu Women's Justin Simmons Jersey , the regional public security department said on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Ili prefecture held a public hearing at a sports venue, which was attended by more than 7,000 residents.
The local court handed out sentences to 55 criminals, who were convicted of intentional homicide, splitting the country Women's Jake Butt Jersey , or organizing and taking part in terrorist activities.
Meanwhile, the local public security department announced the arrests of 38 suspects and the detention of 27 others.
The public hearing shows the firm determination of the prefecture to strike against terrorism, Li Minghui, the deputy secretary of the prefecture's Party committee, said at the hearing.
Pan Zhiping, director of the Institute of Central Asia at the Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences Women's Chad Kelly Jersey , told the Global Times that he thinks following the Urumqi attack, the anti-terrorism campaign has now reached a new level in China.
"It's necessary to deploy forces at major cities, train stations and squares, while Xinjiang is the major battleground in the fight against terrorism," he said.
Legal, procuratorial and public security authorities in Xinjiang issued a joint statement on Saturday Women's Brendan Langley Jersey , calling for criminals who are involved in terrorist activities to surrender for lenient punishments.
Spreading video and audio files through the Internet has become a new way of recruiting people to terrorist groups and organizing attacks.
In 2013, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), listed by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist group, produced 107 terror videos and audio files, some of which were spread to China, Xinhua quoted Nuriman Rozi Women's Carlos Henderson Jersey , a senior police officer with the regional public security department, as saying.
Pan said video and audio is passed around on 3G phones.
"The videos are usually propaganda for the 'Holy War,' they advertise violence, teach people how to make bombs and spread rumors, whenever something happens in Xinjiang," he said.
Xu Jianying Women's Demarcus Walker Jersey , a research fellow at the Research Center for Chinese Borderland History and Geography at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the way to prevent video and audio from spreading is to enact regulations and strengthen management of the Internet, as well as educating people about the consequences of breaking the law.
DHAKA, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Hilsa, Bangladesh's national fishpopular for its tasty flesh, is set to be registered as thecountry's second Geographical Indication (GI) product as perguidelines of the World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO).
As no complaint was made following a gazette notification of theBangladeshi government published in June Women's Garett Bolles Jersey , there is now no hurdle toregister Hilsa as a product of Bangladesh, a Bangladeshi IndustriesMinistry official told Xinhua Tuesday.
"No parties from abroad raised any objection against theBangladeshi government's move. We were initially worried whetherIndia and Myanmar raise any objection against our move," said theIndustries Ministry official who declined to be named.
He said the Department of Patents, Designs and Trademarks underthe Industries Ministry later this month will hand over the GIcertificate to the Department of Fisheries.
According to the WIPO, GI is a sign used on products that have aspecific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputationthat are due to that origin.
In the recent years, though hilsa production decreases in othercountries Women's Courtland Sutton Jersey , it is on the rise in Bangladesh following the governmentefforts.
Bangladesh has three kinds of Hilsa -- Tenualosa Hilsha,Chandana Ilish and Gurta Ilish.