Qiu Ziming, 38, is the first person to be sentenced under China's criminal law for defaming martyrs. He was ordered to make a public apology within 10 days.
A Chinese blogger who questioned the government's account of last summer's deadly border clashes with India has been sentenced to eight months in prison.and sentenced under a new law prohibiting the defamation of Chinese heroes and martyrs. The guilty verdict and punishment were announced by Jianye District People's Court in Nanjing, Jiangsu, on Monday.
Weibo blogger Qiu Ziming attends his sentencing at Jianye District People's Court in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, on May 31, 2021. Qiu was charged and sentenced to eight months in jail for defaming China's heroes and martyrs after he contradicted the Chinese government's official death toll from the June 2020 border clash with Indian forces in the Himalayas.blogger entered a guilty plea and admitted to making two defamatory posts at 10:29 and 10:46 a.m.
He was handed a sentence of eight months and ordered to make a public apology through a major website or national media within 10 days of the verdict. who were arrested for making similar remarks. Local authorities were also pursuing a seventh, who they identified as a teenager living overseas.