'Orgy photos' of Chinese politicians spark online outrage
A group photo posted on the Chinese social networking site Weibo.
A Chinese Internet user recently published of nearly 200 photos showing men and women taking part in what appears to be an orgy. He claimed the men in the photos were prominent politicians affiliated with China’s ruling party. The photos quickly went viral, and the story took a series of bizarre twists and turns.
As he was surfing on the Chinese social networking site Weibo, the Internet user in question came across photos showing three men and three young women enjoying the pleasures of the flesh. At first, he didn’t think much of it. But then, as he later wrote online, he recognised two of the men as local political leaders. They were, he claimed, Wang Minsheng, the ruling party’s leader for Lujiang district (which has a population of over a million), located in Anhui province; and his deputy, Jiang Dabin.
On August 8, in order to prove that these were the men, he reposted the photos along with other photos showing these politicians carrying out their normal duties. The photos then spread like wildfire online. Internet users recognised the third man in the photos as being Wang Yu, one of the party's youth leaders at Hefei University. Many online commentators found these images quite ironic given that the Chinese authorities have made cracking down on pornography a priority.
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These photos went viral on the Chinese social networking site Weibo.
Two of the accused men quickly spoke out to clear their names. On August 9, Wang Minsheng said he was being framed and these photos were nothing but montages made by enemies of his. Jiang Dabin, his deputy, gave the same defence.
On the same day, an Internet user who purported to be the same person who first accused the men on Weibo posted a message on the online forum Baidu Tieba explaining that he was mistaken about their identity: “When I was surfing on Weibo, I thought I recognised the party secretary for Luijang district in a series of pornographic photos. But it turned out I was wrong. I did not realise at the time that this could have such serious consequences, so I would like to offer my most sincere apologies.”
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