The whistle-blower found himself at the centre of unwelcome attention after uploading screenshots from a sex video, which ultimately cost a district party chief in Chongqing his job. The citizen journalist was detained and interrogated for seven hours by Chongqing police in Beijing last week. But Zhu, whose revelations have already cost 11 officials their jobs, vowed not to be deterred.
His partner, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, won plaudits for her stand against sexism last year, but Canberra's "first gentleman" managed to upset many by making a joke about looking for "a small, Asian female doctor" to perform a prostate exam. Gillard's smile turned to "impenetrable stone" when Mathieson cracked the joke at a prostate cancer awareness event.