“Digital Brother” Liu Rongdong, a Huizhou netizen，sentenced

On August 11, “Digital Brother” Liu Rongdong was given a three year-sentence with a five-year suspension by Boluo County Court, Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, for the “crime of provocation and incitement.” According to People’s Net News, this became the first internet crime heard at Boluo County Court.

Digital Brother used many aliases. He was accused of spreading false information about the June 4 incident to attack the CCP and government leaders, leading to extensive comments by netizens, which was said to harm the image of the CCP and state leaders. He also criticized the controversial annual car-pass system as illegal, which was said to incite netizens on QQ to demonstrate in Guangzhou. He was accused of using extremely insulting language to attack county Communist Party and public security officials using their real names. On five occasions in July, August and September 2013, he went to the county public security bureau and held up banners with insulting language to county Communist Party and public security officials.

Liu Rongdong, a native of Jiangxi Province, has worked in the digital products industry for many years in Boluo. He was detained for ten days on Sept. 7, 2012 for his online speech. On the afternoon of Sept. 2, 2013, on his way to Boluo Public Security Bureau to ask for an explanation, he was detained by Boluo County Public Security Brigade for provocation and incitement. 

Before he was detained, Liu Rongdong said that he has “openly attacked CCTV, People’s Daily and the Xinhua News Agency for continuously reporting about the online commentator Xue Manzi. China’s major media ignores the sufferings of the common people and goes to great lengths to hysterically report a common person’s prostitution case. It reflects the media’s vulgar taste, not engaging in real work. People’s Daily and CCTV have become paparazzi.” 

Liu Rongdong’s attorney, Ge Yongxi ,said that Digital Brother, who swore at the director of the Public Security Bureau, was released after being jailed for nearly a year before being given his latest sentence. He lost 10 kilograms of body weight while in prison. Are those who want to lose weight still hesitating? Hurry up and swear at the Public Security Bureau chiefs. Call them corrupt, call them scum and you too can go to jail and lose weight.

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