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Police probe Internet AIDS smear campaign

By Jane Chen | April 13, 2010, Tuesday | Online Edition

POLICE are hunting an Internet user who posted photos of three "prostitutes" and listed phone numbers of 89 of their alleged clients, adding that one sex worker had contracted AIDS.

Police in Hefei, capital of eastern China's Anhui Province, have launched an investigation after the post roused public uproar, today's Xiaoxiang Morning Post reported.

Hefei Disease Prevent & Control Center's AIDS center has denied holding any patient records for the woman AIDS sufferer named in the post as Li Jingxia.

The claim was first published on Sunday at bbs.hefei.cn that the three women including Li had been working as prostitutes since 2006. Attached were their photos and phone numbers of 89 their so-called clients. The post advised the "clients" to visit a hospital.

A day later, a poster claiming to be one of the three women denied the prostitution allegation, saying the three were her mother, her sister and herself. She indicated that the accusation came from her mother's former boyfriend Zhao Guangkuo, who had been rejected after she found he was a convicted thief.

Xiaoxiang Morning Post dialed 20 numbers and all who answered denied being clients of prostitutes – many were female.

Last month, a Beijing man who conducted an Internet smear campaign accusing his ex-girlfriend of working as a prostitute and spreading AIDS was jailed for three years.

Yang Yongmeng, 32, was convicted of aggravated defamation and sentenced at the People's Court of Rongcheng County, in Baoding City, Hebei Province, on March 26, according to earlier media reports.



 

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