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September 22, 2011, Thursday
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A MAN suspected of assault confessed his crime on Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging site, after evading police for three months, police said yesterday.
The suspect, surnamed Qin, assaulted a person with a beer bottle in the city of Zhongshan in south China's Guangdong Province and then fled. He contacted police through Weibo last week, according to Wang Zhiqiang, deputy chief of the police bureau in Zhongshan.
Wang said Qin is the first suspect in Guangdong Province to admit a crime via Weibo.
He said the man sent a private message to the microblog account of the police bureau in Zhongshan, asking whether his crime would be eligible for bail. An officer then persuaded Qin to turn himself in.
Qin followed the officer's advice and confessed to police on Weibo before surrendering to the Zhongshan police bureau. Police are currently arranging his bail, the official said.
Weibo users say microblogging sites are good platforms for people and police to interact.
The public security bureau in the city of Fuzhou posted an announcement directed at fugitives on its microblog last month. It said: "Dear (fugitive), come back home. I know you cannot eat well nor sleep well now. Dear (fugitive), when you come back, police will listen to your story."
More than 1,000 public security bureaus have opened microblog accounts. They have become important tools assisting the police, according to a report by Shanghai's Fudan University.
The suspect, surnamed Qin, assaulted a person with a beer bottle in the city of Zhongshan in south China's Guangdong Province and then fled. He contacted police through Weibo last week, according to Wang Zhiqiang, deputy chief of the police bureau in Zhongshan.
Wang said Qin is the first suspect in Guangdong Province to admit a crime via Weibo.
He said the man sent a private message to the microblog account of the police bureau in Zhongshan, asking whether his crime would be eligible for bail. An officer then persuaded Qin to turn himself in.
Qin followed the officer's advice and confessed to police on Weibo before surrendering to the Zhongshan police bureau. Police are currently arranging his bail, the official said.
Weibo users say microblogging sites are good platforms for people and police to interact.
The public security bureau in the city of Fuzhou posted an announcement directed at fugitives on its microblog last month. It said: "Dear (fugitive), come back home. I know you cannot eat well nor sleep well now. Dear (fugitive), when you come back, police will listen to your story."
More than 1,000 public security bureaus have opened microblog accounts. They have become important tools assisting the police, according to a report by Shanghai's Fudan University.
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