China jails blogger who 'slandered' dead in India border clash

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Qiu Ziming, who has over 2.5 million followers on China's twitter-like Weibo, is the first person to be jailed under a new provision of China's criminal law that bans the 'defamation of martyrs and heroes'.

Indian soldiers walk along a road near Zojila mountain pass that connects Srinagar to the union territory of Ladakh, bordering China

Qiu Ziming -- with over 2.5 million followers on China's twitter-like Weibo -- was sentenced to eight months in prison, the court in the eastern city of Nanjing announced Tuesday. After months of silence, the Chinese military in February said four soldiers were killed in a skirmish with Indian troops in the disputed Galwan Valley last June.The dead were posthumously honoured as "border-defending heroes."

He also said that a commanding officer survived "because he was the highest-ranking officer there" -- a comment that irked officials.

 

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