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First pornography website to go on trial in China
May 10, 2005
Beijing - The Hefei Intermediate People's Court has announced that it would
adjudicate China's first internet sex crime, the so-called 99BBS, on May 11th.
At the end of last year, under the leadership of the Ministry of Public
Security, the Anhui Provincial Department of Public Security mobilized its
internet police and security personnel and arrested twelve suspected criminals
throughout the country after doggedly pursuing the case for more than one
month. The arrests broke the backbone of the internet criminal enterprise
operating in China, forcing the closure of the gang's websites.
The criminals were accused of using offshore computer servers to perpetrate
crimes, operating in more than a dozen provinces and cities and registering
more than three hundred thousand users and logging more than 400 million
cumulative visits on its website.
The 99BBS case is, to date, the biggest of its kind involving the most
registered internet users cracked by public security bureaus. The police also
arrested the largest number of webmasters and internet staff and the case
involved the most serious pornographic material. It is the first case cracked
by Chinese authorities that concerns internet pornography perpetuated by
criminals inside and outside China.
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