Netizen Detained for Questioning a Local Beauty Pageant Winner Being a Senior Party’s Leader

AuthorZhang Shuzhou

On January 8, Duan Xiaowen, a 46-year old in Lengshuijiang City, Hunan Province, posted questioning online on whether a local beauty pageant namely Wu Juan, now becoming a Municipal Secretary-General, had a “mysterious hand” helping her to achieve her current position. The next day, Duan was arrested and was detained for 10 days. The police claimed that Duan was detained for libel, as the defamed was the secretary for the municipal secretarial team, admitted to the civil service through normal channels.

Duan Xiaowen said to the reporter that he was released early because of the “immense pressure from the...

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