Prominent Chinese blogger Qiu Ziming has been sentenced to eight months in prison for denigrating martyrs. In February, Qiu challenged the official death toll of Chinese soldiers killed in a border skirmish with Indian forces in June 2020. Chinese authorities had only belatedly acknowledged that four People’s Liberation Army soldiers had died in the clash. Initially, they still denied Chinese victims.
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