BEIJING — China has jailed a popular blogger for “defaming martyrs” after he suggested the death toll of the China-India border clash last year was higher than the official count of four.
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.
He is the first person to be jailed under a new provision of China’s criminal law that bans the “defamation of martyrs and heroes.”
After months of silence, the Chinese military in February said four soldiers were killedin a skirmish with Indian troops in the disputed Galwan Valley last June.
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