Tianjin software engineer Zhou Shaoqing was surprisingly sentenced to nine months in prison for tweeting and liking. According to Overseas Rights Defense Network, Zhou Shaoqing, a 31-year-old software engineer living in Tianjin, was criminally detained on March 13, 2020, for liking and tweeting more than 120 tweets, and was detained at the Hedong District Detention Center in Tianjin after his arrest on August 17, 2020. Zhou Shaoqing was also falsely accused by the Chinese Communist authorities of being mentally ill, but at the time of his sentencing the court again stated that he was fully responsible. Zhou was sentenced by the Hedong District People’s Court in Tianjin to nine months in prison from March 13, 2020, to December 11, 2020, for provoking and provoking trouble as a result of his Twitter comments. Zhou Shaoqing has now been released after completing his sentence.
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