New law on way to fight dissemination of terrorist audio, video

The Supreme People's Court on Tuesday announced that there will soon be laws and regulations on spreading video and audio involving terrorism and violence.

The five suspects in the May 22 bomb attack at a market in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, were influenced by terrorist video and audio spread via phones and over the Internet, police said previously.

Such video and audio files encouraged people to sacrifice their lives for the "Holy War" and spread extreme religious teachings. They mainly targeted young and uneducated people.

Many terror suspects caught in recent years were inspired by such video and audio to carry out these activities, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The top court's announcement came after President Xi Jinping held a conference on May 28 on Xinjiang, which pushed for anti-terrorism campaign as well as regional development.

The court announced it will urge lower-level courts to strengthen criminal justice, be devoted to the anti-terrorism campaign and try terrorism cases in a fast and effective manner.

Courts should justly try civil and business cases and protect the rights of enterprises and people in Xinjiang.

In 2013, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, listed by the United Nations Security Council as a terrorist group, produced 107 terrorist video and audio files, some of which were spread to China, according to Xinhua.

The court will also see to the training of "bilingual" judges in Xinjiang, as well as strengthen publicity on law and order, as part of the anti-terrorism campaign.