India-China border standoff: Beijing jails blogger for 8 months over remarks on casualties in Galwan clash

The blogger was also ordered to publicly apologize through major domestic portals and the national media within 10 days.

Beijing: A popular Chinese blogger, detained earlier this year for his comments regarding military casualties of Galwan valley clash with India, has been sentenced to eight months in prison. Qiu Ziming, an internet celebrity with more than 2.5 million followers, on Monday received a jail term of eight months for `defaming martyrs`, marking the first such case in China since a new amendment was attached to the Criminal Law, reported Global Times. The blogger, who is known online as `Labixiaoqiu`, was also ordered to publicly apologize through major domestic portals and the national media within 10 days, ordered a Nanjing court in East China`s Jiangsu Province.