China Jails Blogger for ‘Smearing’ Soldiers Killed in Clash with India at Galwan
NEW DELHI—China has jailed a popular blogger for “smearing martyrs” killed in last year’s bloody clash with Indian soldiers in Galwan.
Qiu Ziming, 38, an internet celebrity with 2.5 million followers on the Chinese social media platform Weibo was sentenced to eight months in jail under China’s freshly amended criminal law that crackdowns on the “online humiliation or insults against” martyrs, reported Global Times, the Chinese state-run media.
A court in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, also ordered Ziming, known by the internet name of “Labixiaoqiu” to publicly apologize through national media to eliminate what the Global Times called “negative impact.”