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A Chinese woman was sentenced to six months in prison last year for posting on social media what the authorities deemed to be misleading information about the Covid-19 outbreak.
Zhang Wenfang, from Hebei province, was detained by police on April 4 after publishing information on the Twitter-like platform Weibo about people who had died or suffered during the health crisis, according to a court document made public by the Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday.
She was held for four months for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” – a catch-all charge commonly used by China’s authorities to muzzle dissent – and later found guilty in court of “knowingly spreading false information and causing serious disruption to public order” for which she was sentenced to six months in prison. Allowing for time served she was released on October 6.
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Number of newborns falls in 2020 By WANG XIAODONG | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-02-10 07:22 Share CLOSE Nurse Zhang Liuping feeds a newborn at the neonatology department of the People s Hospital of Rong an in Rong an County of Liuzhou, South China s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Jan 1, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
The number of newborns whose names were registered with public security authorities on the Chinese mainland last year dropped by about 15 percent from the previous year to about 10 million, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
Of those newborns, about 5.3 million were boys and 4.7 million were girls, the ministry said in a report released on Monday.
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