Chinese police have ordered two men detained for 15 days after they posted pictures on the internet of themselves wearing Japanese World War II army uniforms at the site of one of the war’s worst atrocities.
Nanjing Police said the sentences were imposed following widespread outrage online, underscoring the enduring sensitivity among Chinese over Japan’s invasion and occupation of much of the country in the 1930s and 1940s.
The men, aged 22 and 25, were ruled guilty on the broadly defined charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” and sentenced to administrative detention, a punishment short of jailing for which no trial is required.
“Individual actions of citizens should not challenge the dignity of the nation and its people,” police said in a statement.