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Beijing: Chinese authorities have jailed a blogger, who had triggered a controversy by making comments about Chinese soldiers who died in a Himalayan border clash with Indian troops last year, for eight months, media reports said on Tuesday.
Qiu Ziming, 38, was found guilty of "slandering heroes and martyrs", reports BBC.
Qiu, known as "Labixiaoqiu" online, was also ordered to publicly apologize through major domestic portals and the national media within 10 days to eliminate the negative impact, a court in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province ruled, reports Global Times.
The court held that Qiu had truthfully confessed to his crime, entered a guilty plea and said in court that he would never commit the crime again. The sentence was therefore lighter, the newspaper reported.
India and China have been engaged into border standoff along the LAC in eastern Ladakh since early May last year.
It has even led to a violent clash between troops of the two countries in the Galwan valley on June 15, wherein 20 Indian soldiers were killed.
The Chinese side also suffered massive casualties but they have yet not disclosed the figure.