China: 3 bloggers sentenced to 2 years in prison
Event- Country
- China
- Initial Date
- Apr 29, 2010
- Event Description
Three bloggers - Fan Yanqiong, You Jingyou and Wu Huaying - who took up the case of a mother who was calling on the authorities to reopen the investigation into her daughter's death, were convicted on charges of defamation and disturbing public order. The court imposed a two-year sentence on Fan and one-year sentences on You and Wu for posting information online supporting the mother's claim that her daughter died after being gang-raped by individuals with links to the police rather than as a result of a miscarriage, as the authorities claim.
- Impact of Event
- 3
- Source
- Monitoring Status
- Pending
- Event Location
Latitude: 26.07451
Longitude: 119.29649
- Event Location
- Summary for Publications
Three bloggers - Fan Yanqiong, You Jingyou and Wu Huaying - who took up the case of a mother who was calling on the authorities to reopen the investigation into her daughter's death, were convicted on charges of defamation and disturbing public order. The court imposed a two-year sentence on Fan and one-year sentences on You and Wu for posting information online supporting the mother's claim that her daughter died after being gang-raped by individuals with links to the police rather than as a result of a miscarriage, as the authorities claim.