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  • China arrests & fines 4 internet users for spreading "epidemic" rumours in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province

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    Four Internet users spread Hangzhou epidemic rumors detained fine
    March 20, 2013 09:20:00
    Source: Xinhua

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    In the afternoon of March 16, a post on Sina microblogging "field of a young couple to Hangzhou play fever came back, the man died in the hospital, the woman still in the hospital but also in critical condition"; Then, The Sina microblogging another posts that "a company laboratory accident causing virus leak, three o'clock tomorrow will Hangzhou City of 'clean'. Others thread called "Hangzhou beltway sealed the all not only into. The above rumors spread on the Internet, triggering public concern, causing some panic.

    The Hangzhou police immediately launched an investigation, seized on March 17 Posted by employees in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Wu , Zhang, Shimou and Hangzhou, a vocational high school students Yaomou. The four fabricated on the Internet, the spreading epidemic rumors of illegal confessed. The public security organs in accordance with the provisions of Article 25 of the "People's Republic of China on Administrative Penalties for Public Security Act, respectively, made ​​of the fabricated rumors Wu, Zhang security detention for 10 days, five days of punishment to make law and order a fine of 500 yuan punishment, Shimou Yaomou .

    zhttp://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet.com/newmedia/2013-03/20/c_124480026.htm
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