Reporter who wrote fake news to face 22 months in Jail

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Reporter who wrote fake news to face 22 months in Jail

CRI, October 17, 2014

Chen Yongzhou, New Express Daily reporter, was slapped with a jail-term of one year and 10 months and a fine of 20,000 yuan after writing a series of fabricated news articles.

The screen shot from CCTV shows Chen Yongzhou (front, left) in the People’s Court of Yuelu district, Changsha, Hunan province on October 17, 2014. [Photo: CCTV]

Chen was arrested in 2013, by four policemen in Changsha,a city in South-China's Hunan province, for writing a series of articles about Hunan province-based engineering company Zoomlion's financial troubles. The article's alleged that the company possibly stealing state assets and making fake financial reports.

The Changsha city police said they have enough evidence to prove that Chen fabricated facts to hurt the Changsha-based engineering company in a series of 18 articles published over the past year, thus damaging Zoomlion's reputation.

 

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2 Chinese journalists jailed for fabricated stories

E-mail Xinhua, October 17, 2014

Two Chinese journalists received jail time on Friday over fabricating news reports targeting a major listed engineering company, said a local court in central China's Hunan Province.

Chen Yongzhou (L), of daily newspaper the New Express was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison for inflicting damage to the commercial reputation of Zoomlion with a series of false reports between September 2012 and May 2013. [Video clip]

Chen Yongzhou, of daily newspaper the New Express, based in Guangzhou of neighboring Guangdong Province, was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison for inflicting damage to the commercial reputation of Zoomlion with a series of false reports between September 2012 and May 2013, said a verdict by the Yuelu district people's court in Changsha, capital of Hunan.

The reports had resulted in the company's stocks dropping and public accusations against its management.

The 28-year-old was also convicted of taking 30,000 yuan (4,900 U.S. dollars) in bribes in May 2013, it said.

The court ordered confiscation of his illegal gains and added an additional 20,000 yuan fine.

Meanwhile, Zhuo Zhiqiang, co-writer of one of the untrue stories, was handed down a 10-month jail term and ordered to pay a fine of 10,000 yuan.

 

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