Taipei: Police have arrested at least 23 people in connection with a demonstration last week against the decision to place the Mongolian language in textbooks in the Inner Mongolia region of China. Protests and boycotts of schools were held in at least five cities and counties in Inner Mongolia over plans to implement new textbooks.
The move to change textbooks was taken in 2017 in other ethnic minority areas, Xinjiang and Tibet. The 23 people detained belong to eight counties, according to data collected by the Associated Press from reports of nine police stations in the last few days. Reasons for his detention include ‘organizing and signing a petition’, ‘quarreling and causing trouble’, ‘derogatory remarks about a late leader of the country’, ‘National by sharing videos on V chat It has been described as ‘obstructing the implementation of textbook policy’. ‘We Chat’ is a popular messaging app in China.
