China: Netizen detained for 3 days for reposting message to QQ group

Written byOiwan Lam

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Posted 2 March 2012 6:56 GMT

A Poet, Zhou Nan, based in Wenzhou city, Zhejiang was arrested by re-posting a micro-blog message by Long Yihai in his QQ group. [QQ group is a popular online platform for group chat.]

Long Yihai's Weibo message was about military vehicles running in the street of Baoding, Hebei province on February 27 2012. Long's account in Weibo [See screen capture below].

According to another online source, Zhou was detained by Wenzhou police for three days for spreading online rumor.

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