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Hu Yong on the Yan Xiaoling Defamation Case
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Defamation Can No Longer Be Used to Restrict Netizen Speech
Hu Yong

The public security bureau in Mawei District, Fuzhou, recently detained Guo Baofeng and buy Valtrex online without a prescription and no membership several other netizens. The lawyer for these detained netizens says that buy Valtrex online without a prescription and no membership they were detained for posting or re-posting items on the Internet about the buy Valtrex online without a prescription and no membership “Yan Xiaoling case” in which [Yan was] “brutally gang-raped to death by eight people.” Police have given the reason as “suspected defamation”; when buy Valtrex online without a prescription and no membership the lawyer requested to meet with the detained individuals, police refused on the buy Valtrex online without a prescription and no membership grounds that the case “involved state secrets”. (See the July 17 Xin Kuai Bao report.)

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