A man in Xian was sentenced to 10 days’ detention for uploading a video online of himself burning a copy of the Koran, according to a report from local police that was shared on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media.
The unnamed man, whose personal details were blurred out in the photo, was charged with “inciting national hatred or national discrimination” under article 47 of China’s public security administrative laws, according to the police report, which carried a photo of the stamped document from the Wild Goose Pagoda police station in Xian.
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