Chinese authorities have shut 16 websites and detained six people accused of spreading rumours of unusual military vehicle movements in Beijing after the political downfall of a senior communist party leader.
Authorities closed the websites for spreading rumours of "military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on in Beijing," Xinhua news agency says, citing a spokesman with the State Internet Information Office (SIIO).
The spokesman said that two popular microblog sites also had been "criticised and punished accordingly".
The March 15 ouster of Bo Xilai as party chief of the inland city of Chongqing, who was linked to a scandal involving a senior aide, has shaken China's communist party as it readies for a top leadership change later this year. After Mr Bo was sacked, popular microblogs, including those run by Sina and Tencent, were awash with speculation about a government coup.CHINA IS STILL A TYRANNICAL STATE AND SHOULD BE TREATED AS SUCH BY THE FREE WORLD BECAUSE THEY ARE A THREAT TO OUR LIBERTIES, NOT JUST THOSE OF THE CHINESE.
(I BETCHYA OBAMA WOULD LOVE TO O THE SAME THING TO A FEW DOZEN BLOGS HERE IN THE USA!)
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