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By Wang Xiang |
December 2, 2009, Wednesday
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THE man who was arrested for posting pornographic pictures of his former girlfriend online and triggered a storm by saying she was an HIV-carrying prostitute said today he was "deeply sorry."
Yang Yongmeng, a 33-year-old Beijing native, told China Central Television that he was not familiar with computers and the Internet before he posted the pictures and didn't realize how widespread the photos would become. He said he was very sorry for Yan and her family.
He said his revenge plan was inspired by the sex photo scandal that caught several Hong Kong pop stars last year.
Sex photographs of Hong Kong actor Edison Chen with various women, including actresses Gillian Chung, Bobo Chan, and Cecilia Cheung, were posted online after a computer technician steal them from Chen's laptop. The scandal shook the Hong Kong entertainment industry in early 2008.
Yang faked an online blog under the name of Yan Deli. He posted more than 200 nude pictures of Yan with a letter listing the names and contacts of more than 300 men, claiming her to be an AIDS-infected prostitute and all of the listed men were her clients.
He also said the woman was raped by her stepfather when she was 15 years old and had to go to work in Beijing because her family was too poor to support her.
Among the names were two police officers in Yan's home town in Hebei Province. The two officers got numerous short messages and phone calls that led them to the posting. Yang was found to have made up the story to get back at his ex-girlfriend who dumped him.
The woman took three blood tests to defend her honor and prove she was not carrying HIV after Internet users started discussing it.
The case has also been a headache for the police too, said Zhai Yanqing, the head of public security authority in Rongcheng City.
China's criminal law does not allow police intervene in defamation cases unless the case is disrupting social order, yet it is vague about what conduct could disrupt social order, said Zhai.
Yang Yongmeng, a 33-year-old Beijing native, told China Central Television that he was not familiar with computers and the Internet before he posted the pictures and didn't realize how widespread the photos would become. He said he was very sorry for Yan and her family.
He said his revenge plan was inspired by the sex photo scandal that caught several Hong Kong pop stars last year.
Sex photographs of Hong Kong actor Edison Chen with various women, including actresses Gillian Chung, Bobo Chan, and Cecilia Cheung, were posted online after a computer technician steal them from Chen's laptop. The scandal shook the Hong Kong entertainment industry in early 2008.
Yang faked an online blog under the name of Yan Deli. He posted more than 200 nude pictures of Yan with a letter listing the names and contacts of more than 300 men, claiming her to be an AIDS-infected prostitute and all of the listed men were her clients.
He also said the woman was raped by her stepfather when she was 15 years old and had to go to work in Beijing because her family was too poor to support her.
Among the names were two police officers in Yan's home town in Hebei Province. The two officers got numerous short messages and phone calls that led them to the posting. Yang was found to have made up the story to get back at his ex-girlfriend who dumped him.
The woman took three blood tests to defend her honor and prove she was not carrying HIV after Internet users started discussing it.
The case has also been a headache for the police too, said Zhai Yanqing, the head of public security authority in Rongcheng City.
China's criminal law does not allow police intervene in defamation cases unless the case is disrupting social order, yet it is vague about what conduct could disrupt social order, said Zhai.
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