Court upholds libel sentences to three Netizens

By Jane Chen | June 28, 2010, Monday |

Online Edition

A SOUTHEAST China court today upheld the verdicts on three people convicted of creating and distributing online posts libeling police officers by accusing them of gang raping a woman, resulting in her death.

Fuzhou City People's Court in Fujian Province sentenced Fan Yanxiong to two years in jail and gave a one-year jail term each to You Jingyou and Wu Huaying, Xinhua news agency reported.

Last June, Fan wrote an online post about the death of Yan Xiaoling, a 25-year-old native of Fujian's Minqing City who worked at a KTV house, based on the account of Yan's mother Lin Xiuying. It said Yan was forced to become a prostitute and died in July 2008 after being raped by eight police officers.

Police dismissed the rumors and said forensic research confirmed Yu had died from an ectopic pregnancy that ruptured.

But Fan continued to distribute posts claiming that Yan had died after being gang raped and named officers to make the stories more convincing.

You and Wu, though knowing Fan's stories were fabricated, made a video showing Lin's account of Yan's death and uploaded it. It rocked online communities and attracted millions of comments condemning the local police and government.

Police caught Fan in July.

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Court upholds libel sentences to three Netizens

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