China's top netizen gets 8-mo jail term

By Global Times

Jun 02, 2021 12:26 am

JIANGSU: Qiu Ziming, an internet celebrity with more than 2.5 million followers, received a jail term of eight months for defaming martyrs on Monday, in China's first such reported case since a new amendment was attached to the Criminal Law.

Qiu, known as 'Labixiaoqiu' online, was also ordered to publicly apologize through major domestic portals and the national media within 10 days to eliminate the negative impact, a court in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province ruled.

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