China arrests cartoonist Wang Liming for forwarding an email
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China has arrested a blogger and a cartoonist in a crackdown on “rumor-mongering.”
From The New York Times:
In Beijing, the capital, cartoonist Wang Liming was taken into custody at midnight on Wednesday and has not yet been freed, his friend, Wu Gan, told Reuters by telephone.
Wu said police told Wang’s girlfriend they summoned him for forwarding a microblog post about a stranded mother holding a baby who had starved to death in the flood-hit eastern city of Yuyao.
“Suppression of this kind by the Chinese government is of no use,” Wu said. “Rumors arise because there’s no freedom to communicate on the Internet. Arresting people will not solve the problem because the problem does not lie with the people, but with the government.”
The New York Times reports that the government is cracking down on dissent and is threatening three-year jail sentences for anyone spreading untrue posts.
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