China jails blogger for ‘defaming martyrs’ of Galwan Valley clash
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He is the first person to be jailed under a new provision of China’s criminal law that bans the “defamation of martyrs and heroes”.
China has jailed a popular blogger for “defaming martyrs” after he suggested the death toll of the was higher than the official count of four. Qiu Ziming — with over 2.5 million followers on China’s Twitter-like Weibo — was sentenced to eight months in prison, the court in the eastern city of Nanjing announced June 1. He is the first person to be jailed under a new provision of China’s criminal law that bans the “defamation of martyrs and heroes”.
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