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China detained six people on Friday for "fabricating or disseminating online rumours," the State Internet Information Office and Beijing police said, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Chinese authorities shut down 16 websites for spreading rumours of "military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on in Beijing," Xinhua quoted a spokesman for the State Internet Information Office as saying.
Beijing police detained six people for allegedly fabricating and spreading the rumours, particularly on microblogging posts, Xinhua said.
After the sacking of political star Bo Xilai in mid-March, groundless rumours of a coup in Beijing began circulating on the Internet, all of them unverifiable and most highly implausible.
Chinese authorities shut down 16 websites for spreading rumours of "military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on in Beijing," Xinhua quoted a spokesman for the State Internet Information Office as saying.
Beijing police detained six people for allegedly fabricating and spreading the rumours, particularly on microblogging posts, Xinhua said.
After the sacking of political star Bo Xilai in mid-March, groundless rumours of a coup in Beijing began circulating on the Internet, all of them unverifiable and most highly implausible.
