The announcement on the terrorism law came a day after China said that it would not renew the press credentials of a French journalist who wrote an article about ethnic violence in the nations northwestern Xinjiang region.
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State news agency Xinhua reported Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang as saying late Saturday that Ursula Gauthier had offended the Chinese people with an article in which it said she “overtly voiced support for terrorist activities”. If her press card is not renewed, she can not apply for a new visa, which would force her to leave the country.
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She also questioned China’s motives in expressing sympathy for the victims of the November 13 Paris attacks, writing that they could be part of a calculated plan to tie Beijing’s strict handling of Xinjiang into the broader fight against global terrorism.
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Ms Gauthier called the claims “absurd” and said Beijing was trying to “deter” foreign reporters in the country. In a counterterrorism campaign, a Xinjiang court a year ago sentenced an Uighur scholar critical of China’s ethnic policies in Xinjiang to life in prison. “Don t presume to represent me – I don t even know what happened!” wrote one user on China s Twitter-like Weibo platform.
Terrorists had been using the Internet to operate and China needed laws to cope with this, Hong added.
On its website, the L’Obs said Gauthier confirmed receiving official communication that she will have to make a public apology to avoid expulsion from the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama has said that he had raised concern about the law directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The anti-terrorism law also permits the People’s Liberation Army to get involved in anti-terrorism operations overseas, though experts have said China faces big practical and diplomatic problems if it ever wants to do this. The ministry accused her of supporting terrorism through columns it said were overly sympathetic to the Uighurs.
The law, an antiterrorism bill that Chinese officials say is necessary to combat domestic and global terrorism, is less intrusive than an earlier draft version, which would have required technology manufacturers to create so-called backdoors in their products that would let authorities access their data at any time.
The approval by the legislature, which is controlled by the Communist Party, came as Beijing has become increasingly jittery about anti government violence, especially in the ethnically divided region of Xinjiang in western China, where members of the Uighur minority have been at growing odds with the authorities.
“I didn’t write that I supported terrorism, I never supported terrorism in my article”, she told AFP at her home in Beijing.
Xinjiang suffers frequent outbreaks of violence including ethnic rioting and, more recently, what appear to be attacks on civilians by Islamic extremists.
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She’d function as the first foreign journalist.
