Police in China arrested three people over the weekend for allegedly posting remarks online deemed “insulting” to late Chinese agronomist Yuan Longping, credited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with curbing famine in the country.
“Two netizens, one in Beijing and another in North China’s Tianjin Municipality, were both found to have posted a number of insulting remarks about Yuan on Wechat [a Chinese social media platform] on Saturday [May 22], which were reported to police,” China’s state-run Global Times reported on May 23, one day after Yuan died at age 91.
“Those derogatory posts had caused ‘seriously bad’ impact on the society, according to a statement issued by police [sic]. Both people have been detained and an investigation is now underway,” the newspaper wrote.
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