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Widow sues bloggers for defamation

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-02-24 06:51

SHANGHAI: The widow of renowned Chinese film director Xie Jin is suing two bloggers for saying her husband died while spending the night with a prostitute.

Xu Dawen is demanding Song Zude and Liu Xinda delete articles on Xie's death from their blogs on major Chinese portal websites, and pay a total of 500,000 yuan ($73,000) for psychological injury.

The Jing'an District People's Court in Shanghai accepted the case yesterday.

Song posted an article on Oct 19 last year saying Xie, 84, slept with a prostitute in a hotel in Shangyu, Zhejiang province, the night he died.

Song's friend Liu Xinda wrote in his blog that Xie died after "whoring".