Jan 25, 2016 05:54 PM

Police Criticized for Holding Man over 'Two-Wife Policy' Fake News

By staff reporter Wang Heyan

The highlighted headline on the mock front page of the Yangjiang Daily saying "the city government will introduce a two-wife policy"

The highlighted headline on the mock front page of the Yangjiang Daily saying "the city government will introduce a two-wife policy"

(Beijing) – Legal experts say police in one southern city overstepped their bounds when they detained a man for spoofing a local newspaper by creating a fake front page that said officials were preparing a "two-wife policy."

The website of Yangjiang Daily reported on January 22 that police in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, detained a man for "spreading rumors" because he created a mock front page of the state-run newspaper.

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