Courts in the edgy far western region of China have arrested dozens of individuals in a special action to rein in the spread of video and audio materials that provoke terrorism, the Xinjiang Supreme Court announced Wednesday.

The court posted statements on its official micro blog site, saying that 39 people had been convicted and sent to prison Tuesday for different crimes like managing and leading terrorist cells, provoking hatred, racial discrimination, as well as unauthorized gun manufacturing.

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China's Xinjiang region, the place where the Islam Uighur group lives, have experienced an outpour of violence while disputing the government of Beijing.

The most recent attack happened in April, where assailants aimed at civilians during a suicide attack that killed a total of three people at a train station located at the capital city of Urumqi.

Beijing government believes that the violence is incited by dissension-seeking terrorist groups and has declared that they will do everything to curb all the hostility.

The Supreme Court reported that included in the list of people who were convicted Tuesday was the 25-year-old Maimaitiniyazi Aini, who was sentenced for five years behind bars for rousing racial hatred and cultural discrimination through the comments that he posted in six different chat groups online that involves 1,310 individuals.

In a different case, a man from Uighur was arrested and placed behind bars for 15 years for preaching jihad, or Islam's holy war, to his young son and another man, the court stated.

The court also said that the social stability and the cultural unity in Xinjiang had been greatly affected with the violent terrorism attacks. Beijing believes that by halting the criminal activities like disseminating audios and videos with terrorism content, the root of the problem will go away.

Human rights organization and critics of the government said that the suppressive cultural, ethnic, and religious policies of Beijing were the cause of anger and dissatisfaction in Uighur.