A well-known mainland blogger has been detained for disrupting social order after he posted an article saying that private investors allegedly implicated in a hospital scandal in Beijing also controlled most of the nation’s Buddhist temples.
Wei Manyi, known as Shui Muran in the online community, was taken away by police in Hangzhou on May 18, the Southern Metropolis News reported on Saturday.
Wei’s younger brother told the newspaper that Wei got a phone call from the police on May 17 asking him to go to a police station as part of an investigation.
The next day the younger brother received a police notice saying Wei had been detained for provoking social disorder, the report said.
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Wei posted an article online on May 3 alleging that private investors from Putian in Fujian province had been implicated in the death of a student at a hospital in Beijing and also controlled 90 per cent of Buddhist temples on the mainland.