A CHINESE court wants an apology from a newspaper which said it jailed 10 "interceptors" who held people trying to complain about the government.
The state-run Beijing Youth Daily reported overnight that 10 were imprisoned for illegally detaining people from the central province of Henan who had travelled to Beijing to complain about local government abuses.
The widely-circulated report struck a chord among many Chinese dissatisfied with the age-old "petitioning" system, which allows citizens to request the central government to investigate disputes such as land grabs and unpaid wages.
Officials, eager to protect their reputations, often employ "interceptors" to catch petitioners and detain them in secret facilities known as "black jails" to prevent them from lodging complaints.
The newspaper said a Beijing court handed down sentences ranging from several months to a year-and-a-half in prison for "illegal imprisonment", the first time such workers have been sentenced in the capital.But a court spokeswoman branded the report, which was carried by most major Chinese news websites and widely spread on Chinese social networking websites, as "fake news", another state-run newspaper, the China Daily, reported.
The spokeswoman, who was not named, "confirmed a case involving city officials from Henan had been heard", but "denied judges had handed down any verdict", the paper said.
Beijing's Chaoyang District Court, which reportedly handed down the verdict, is "in negotiations with Beijing Youth Daily over the printing of an apology and explanation", the paper said.
The China Daily's website appeared to remove the report later on Sunday, but the official microblog account of the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling communist party, also issued a denial of the Beijing Youth Daily story.
"A People's Daily reporter understood from the Beijing high court that there has not been a verdict on the case, and the news was inaccurate," a post on the microblog said.
Users of Sina Weibo, a microblogging website similar to Twitter, expressed disappointment that the interceptors, who are widely reviled figures in China, had not been jailed.
"This news made people so happy, how could it turn out to be fake?" one user wrote.
"I look forward to this news really coming true," wrote another.
Calls to the Chaoyang District Court went unanswered overnight.
Petitioners said their interceptors wore badges showing their affiliation with the Henan government and detained them in a facility run by Henan officials in Beijing, where they were also beaten, according to the Beijing Youth Daily report.
Despite years of calls for China to shut down its "black jails", including from Chinese media, rights groups continue to report frequent cases of petitioners being illegally detained and physically assaulted.
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