{"id":32682,"date":"2021-06-01T17:01:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/china-jails-blogger-who-slandered-dead-in-india-border-clash"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T08:01:12","slug":"china-jails-blogger-who-slandered-dead-in-india-border-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32682","title":{"rendered":"China jails blogger who &#8216;slandered&#8217; dead in India border clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qiu Ziming imprisoned under 2018 law outlawing the defamation of \u2018heroes and martyrs\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Chinese court has jailed a popular blogger over posts suggesting the death toll among Chinese soldiers in a China-Indian border clash last year was higher than claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Qiu Ziming was among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/23\/china-arrests-six-for-causing-negative-social-impact-online-over-india-border-clashes\">at least six people arrested in February<\/a> for online posts about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/17\/explainer-what-is-the-deadly-india-china-border-dispute-about\">Galwan Valley clash<\/a> between Chinese and Indian troops in a disputed border area. A tense standoff that began in May escalated to shouting matches, stone-throwing and fistfights, before culminating on 15 June into a violent bout of hand-to-hand combat with clubs and stones, leaving dozens dead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/01\/china-jails-blogger-who-slandered-dead-in-india-border-clash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qiu Ziming imprisoned under 2018 law outlawing the defamation of \u2018heroes and martyrs\u2019A Chinese court has jailed a popular blogger over posts suggesting the death toll among Chinese soldiers in a China-Indian border clash last year was higher than claim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,62,351,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-india","category-internet","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32683,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32682\/revisions\/32683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}