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AFP reports that a court in Yunnan has\u00a0sentenced Dong Rubin, a well-known microblogger and businessman,\u00a0to six-and-a-half years in prison<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0“fabricating and spreading online rumors for economic gain.” Dong’s prison sentence follows a\u00a0judicial interpretation issued last year stipulating fines or prison time<\/a> for those profiting from such activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A Chinese blogger known for criticising the ruling Communist Party was sentenced Wednesday to six-and-a-half years in jail, state media said, as authorities pursue a crackdown on online “rumours”.<\/p>\n

Dong Rubin — a businessman known to his 50,000 online followers by the alias “Bianmin”, or frontier person — had long discomfited officials in the southwestern province of Yunnan on issues ranging from environmental safety to police brutality.<\/p>\n

He was found guilty by Wuhua district court of conducting “illegal business operations” and “fabricating and spreading online rumours for economic gain”, according to the official Xinhua news agency.<\/p>\n

Hou Peng, the general manager of Dong’s Internet consulting company, was sentenced to three years in jail, and the men were fined 350,000 yuan ($56,000) and 50,000 yuan respectively. [Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dong has been detained since last September<\/a>, when he predicted his own arrest for criticizing the government’s crackdown<\/a> on Internet rumors.\u00a0In 2009, he championed the case of Li Qiaoming, whose death in prison was infamously explained away as an accident during a game of hide and seek<\/a>. In 2011, Dong also\u00a0spoke out against the\u00a0illegal dumping of chromium waste\u00a0in Yunnan<\/a>. Last year, AFP noted<\/a>, he was a vocal opponent of a planned PX plant that sparked major protests in Kunming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Other outspoken online commentators, known on Sina Weibo as “Big V” bloggers, arrested\u00a0during the Xi administration’s Internet crackdown<\/a>\u00a0include Chinese-American investor Charles Xue, who like Dong was subsequently forced to confess his alleged wrongdoings on state television<\/a>. This week the China Internet Network Information Center reported that the number of Chinese web users visiting social media websites dropped by 7.4% in the first half of the year amid tightened Internet controls<\/a>. Sina Weibo in particular has seen activity crash<\/a>, though the precise balance of factors behind this is disputed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AFP reports that a court in Yunnan has\u00a0sentenced Dong Rubin, a well-known microblogger and businessman,\u00a0to six-and-a-half years in prison\u00a0for\u00a0“fabricating and spreading online rumors for economic gain.” Dong’s prison sentence follows a\u00a0judicial interpretation issued last year stipulating fines or prison time for those profiting from such activities.\u00a0 A Chinese blogger known for criticising the ruling Communist 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