Muslim women were held in a cell for months by Chinese police for cyber ‘pre-crimes’ such as accessing WhatsApp and a school Gmail account, book says

By Penelope mason

(NEWS NATION USA) People are detained by the police after a rally in Hong Kong on December 22, 2019 to show support for the Uighur minority in China.

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• Muslim women were sent to Chinese re-education camps for cyber “pre-crimes,” a book out Tuesday reveals.
• One student said she was detained for using a VPN to open her school Gmail account and submit homework.
• She shared a cell with a woman arrested for using WhatsApp to contact coworkers, the book says.

Women belonging to China’s Muslim ethnic groups were detained in a cell for months by Chinese police after being accused of various cyber “pre-crimes,” an excerpt from the book “In The Camps: China’s High-Tech Penal Colony” revealed.