Seven people have been detained in the booming southern city for
allegedly involving in online pornography that served overseas
Internet users, the Ministry of Public Security has said.
Police in Shenzhen cracked on May 24 the seven-member ring that
were accused of providing online strip shows to registered overseas
members, the ministry said.
The mastermind of the ring, a woman surnamed Su, had been
accused of recruiting 12 women to give sexually-provocative
performances since April 2006 and collecting as much as 50,000 yuan
(about US$6,500) from overseas contacts.
The ring ran 12 websites that could only be accessed from
outside the border, and their servers were all located in Taiwan
and Hong Kong, according to the ministry.
China has stepped up its anti-pornography efforts in the cyber
space since it launched a six-month crackdown campaign in
April.
The campaign by the ministry and nine other government
departments targets illegal online activities such as distributing
pornographic materials and organizing cyber strip shows. It hopes
to purge the web of sexually-explicit images, stories, and audio
and video clips.
By mid-May, Chinese police had cracked 244 cases and detained
270 suspects involved in online pornography, the ministry said.
(Xinhua News Agency June 16, 2007)