China Arrests Woman For Defamatory Comments About Olympic Athletes

China arrests woman for defamatory comments about Olympic athletes

Beijing, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Aug, 2024) Police in Beijing said they had arrested a woman for posting defamatory online comments about athletes and coaches in the wake of the women's singles table tennis final at the Paris Olympics.

The 29-year-old woman, surnamed He, "maliciously fabricated information and openly slandered others", the Public Security Bureau of Beijing's Daxing district said in a statement on the X-like Weibo platform on Tuesday.

The statement did not say which athletes and coaches had been targeted and the case remains under investigation, the police said.

The arrest followed the women's singles table tennis finals in Paris on Sunday, police said.