Police in Anshan City, Liaoning Province, announced on its official Weibo account on October 2 that a 37-year-old man surnamed Gao would be detained for 15 days, after commenting adversely about the October 1 parade on WeChat. While watching the live broadcast of the parade, Gao wrote in a WeChat messaging group with 47 members, “Why are you guys watching it?” adding several expletives. When another member of the chat group said that government officials were likely to disapprove of such complaints, Gao joked: “Come here and kill me then! Sooner or later, I will be against it! … Let’s go to Beijing … I’m not afraid of death.” Police said they detained Gao after someone in the WeChat group reported him. In another case in Langzhong City, Sichuan Province, local police disclosed on Weibo that they had punished a 24-year-old man surnamed Qi from Langzhong City, for making critical remarks about the parade.
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