Blogging, Bribery and a Security Bureau Drama

(Hunan) - A deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Public Security Department has been detained after writing letters to the central government and posting blog entries on the Internet begging for an end to what he calls persecution of his blog-posting wife.

Yang Jiannong's turmoil began September 12 when his wife Chen Ling was hauled away as part of a corruption probe by the Communist Party's provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection.