Tuesday, January 6, 2009

2100 euro penalty for drawing cards.

Who researches in China, must beware: Three British students searched for seismic lines and marked maps. Because the young geographers not all papers together had punished the Chinese judiciary hard.
  Their foray into the Chinese province ceased expensive. Three British geography students are to have been fined because they are illicitly maps in the region of Xinjiang have made.
In October of last year looked at the three young British lines after earthquakes in the western Chinese province. For the study, the trio had a permission of the state Earthquake Authority, but not by other government agencies, reported the Chinese newspaper "Xinjiang Daily".
Now the three students at London's Imperial College to pay a total of 20,000 yuan (about 2100 euros). The Chinese newspaper that was the students' research equipment confiscated.
China has in recent years, the rules for the collection of geographical data for security reasons tightened, several media reported. The province of Xinjiang is a majority of the Uyghur Muslim minority inhabited. Here it comes again and again to protest against the central government in Beijing. Human rights activists accuse the People's Republic, the Uyghur systematically oppressing.

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