China Detains Man for ‘Defamatory’ Remarks About Xi’s Parade

Police in China detained a man for comments critical of President Xi Jinping’s military parade, highlighting the ruling Communist Party’s intolerance of dissent.

The 47-year-old made “made slanderous and defamatory remarks” online, police in Xiangyang, Hubei province, said in a statement Thursday evening. The man, whose full name wasn’t given, confessed that he “blasphemed the country and hurt the feelings of the nation,” police said.