Gaybutton Posted November 24, 2006 Posted November 24, 2006 The following appears in the BANGKOK POST: _____ China's "Pornographic Summer" Falls Beijing (dpa) - A court has sentenced the operator of China's largest pornographic website to life in prison, state media said Thursday. Chen Hui's website had more than 600,000 registered users in China and contained 9 million pornographic images when it was closed down in October last year, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted prosecutors as saying. The Intermediate People's Court in the northern city of Taiyuan sentenced Chen Wednesday and jailed eight other organizers for terms of 13 months to 10 years. Chen, 28, started the Qingse Liuyuetian, or Pornographic Summer, website in 2004 and later opened three more pornographic websites, the agency said. Taiyuan police began investigating after a member of the public complained that a local hospital website had changed into the homepage of a pornographic website. Police in Taiyuan and six other areas of China arrested Chen and the eight others over the following three months. Chen regularly changed the web site's domain name and used overseas-based servers, the agency quoted police as saying. The police said it was difficult to estimate the profits of the defendants because much of their income was placed in foreign bank accounts. They found about 200,000 yuan ($25,000) in the Chinese bank accounts of the nine suspects. Quote
