Former investigative journalist Luo Changping has been sentenced to seven months in prison and ordered to make a public apology for insulting Chinese soldiers portrayed in a blockbuster movie about the Korean war. The Sanya Suburb People's Court in southern Hainan province announced the sentence on Luo on Thursday (May 5) for "infringing the reputation and honour of national martyrs",.
Former journalist Luo Changping stood trial on Wednesday, accused of defamatory comments about Chinese soldiers depicted in a blockbuster movie about the Korean war.
“Official rumors” is more than just an oxymoron. The phrase pronounced guanyao has become a useful weapon in Chinese Internet users’ linguistic guerrilla warfare against government censorship. That battle has intensified during a government-led crackdown on “online rumor-mongering,” which has sought to rein in China’s rambunctious social media, partly through the arrest or
Chinese authorities have charged a former investigative journalist over comments about a military-themed blockbuster movie, accusing him of defaming Chinese soldiers from the Korean war. Prosecutors in the southern city of Sanya, Hainan province, announced late on Friday (Feb 18) that Luo Changping, 41, would stand trial on criminal charges but did not say when the hearing would take place..
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