Beijing ‘reporter’ lied about China
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A 62-YEAR-OLD Beijing man has been detained for posting false stories on a US-based website for payment, seriously harming the country’s image, police said yesterday.
Xiang Nanfu had published numerous false reports on boxun.com since 2009 under the username “Feixiang” or “flying” in Chinese, police said. They included a claim that the Chinese government harvested organs from living humans and buried people alive, causing mass protests outside United Nations organizations in China, as well as false reports about land expropriation and violence used against petitioners.
Xiang confessed to his crimes when he was taken into custody on May 3, expressing regret for the “serious harm” he had caused, police said.
His actions were instigated by a man surnamed Wei who ran the website, police said, and the false information had seriously misled the public.
Xiang got to know Wei in 2004 after he posted an article expressing dissatisfaction with government compensation after his house was demolished. Wei told Xiang he would pay good money for more such “complaining” articles.
“I know he was using me to make trouble for the government on the Internet,” Xiang told police, “while I wanted to earn some money and gain a reputation.”
He started fabricating rumors about confrontations between the government and the public in 2009 and the website published his stories as coming from a “senior reporter.”
More than 1,300 articles were posted in 2013, nearly a third of all articles on the site, and he continued to post this year.
Xiang, described as unemployed, has previous convictions that include a nine-year prison sentence for theft.
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