Earthquake Rumour Is A Crime? WTF China

http://www.chinabuzz.net/buzz/woman-arrested-for-spreading-the-earthquake-rumor/



April 25, at around 9 p.m., the police found a netizen spreading the rumor online that a major earthquake is expected to hit Nanjing. Internet police have quickly responded to it and started investigation. Yesterday at 4 p.m., the police caught the person who initiated the rumor based on the clues they got. Upon investigation, the initiator, surnamed Ding, is a 25-year-old woman, who is running a fashion photography shop and likes posting stuff online. Ding read a post titled “Experts forecast Nanjing is going to have an earthquake” at one friend’s QQ Zone at around 7 p.m. on April 25, and became more frightened when thinking of the horrible scenes of doomsday movie “2012″, the earhquake in Yu Shu, and abnormal climate in Nanjing recently.