People's Republic of China has locked up another blogger. Chen Qitang, who wrote under the pen name Tianli, was sentenced in secret after being detained for more than a year. He had been arrested for impersonation and fraud.

Chen posted critical articles on the Internet and helped villagers in Foshan city in Guangdong province to resist land grabs. Chen was taken into custody in October 2007 and formally arrested in December that year, Chinese Human Rights Defenders group said in a statement.

Neither rights group provided details of the fraud allegations against Chen. However in China the word fraud is used when you say something about the system. Since the system is perfect saying something against it must be a fraud and gets you banged up.