Man spread false rumor to inflame pipeline foes
By Li Qian |
July 31, 2012, Tuesday
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A MAN has been detained for attempting to escalate the public outcry by spreading false rumors of police killing two youngsters in a street protest against the construction of a Japanese paper mill's pipeline to the sea in Qidong, a costal city of Jiangsu Province, local police said.
An Internet user surnamed Sun fabricated the story that on July 28, police trampled a nine-year-old girl to death and then beat an 18-year-old university student to death, Qidong police said on its website yesterday.
Sun was sentenced to 10 days under the administrative detention for disturbing the social order by disseminating rumors and was fined 500 yuan (US$78.40), the announcement said.
Qidong residents were highly irritated after the Oji Paper Group's factory in Nantong City, which administers Qidong, was approved to establish a pipeline leading to the sea for industrial waste discharges.
They petitioned against the construction on the grounds that it would pollute the nearby Lusi Fishery, a major fishery in China.
The Qidong government announced on Saturday that the project has been canceled, and residents, who had taken to the streets, dispersed.
The Japanese company insisted the pipeline "is just a supporting project item" and wastewater would be discharged only after being processed properly, it said on its website.
Records showed the paper manufacturer invested US$2 billion on its Nantong plant, with annual production of 800,000 tons of high quality paper and 714,000 tons of pulp.
Oji Paper's Nepia tissue has become one of the top-selling brands in the Chinese market.
An Internet user surnamed Sun fabricated the story that on July 28, police trampled a nine-year-old girl to death and then beat an 18-year-old university student to death, Qidong police said on its website yesterday.
Sun was sentenced to 10 days under the administrative detention for disturbing the social order by disseminating rumors and was fined 500 yuan (US$78.40), the announcement said.
Qidong residents were highly irritated after the Oji Paper Group's factory in Nantong City, which administers Qidong, was approved to establish a pipeline leading to the sea for industrial waste discharges.
They petitioned against the construction on the grounds that it would pollute the nearby Lusi Fishery, a major fishery in China.
The Qidong government announced on Saturday that the project has been canceled, and residents, who had taken to the streets, dispersed.
The Japanese company insisted the pipeline "is just a supporting project item" and wastewater would be discharged only after being processed properly, it said on its website.
Records showed the paper manufacturer invested US$2 billion on its Nantong plant, with annual production of 800,000 tons of high quality paper and 714,000 tons of pulp.
Oji Paper's Nepia tissue has become one of the top-selling brands in the Chinese market.
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