From The New York Times
Woman Is Arrested in Rape Rumor That Ignited Beijing Protest
The Beijing police have arrested a woman for spreading online rumors in connection with the death of a migrant worker that touched off a rare protest in the Chinese capital on Wednesday, state-run media reported on Friday....
The large, unruly demonstration near the heart of Chinese political power set off a rapid response from online censors, who blocked search terms that included Ms. Yuan’s name and the name of the mall. A Beijing propaganda directive instructed microblogs to carry only the official police posts on the case and remove other comments, according to China Digital Times, a Web site affiliated with [the School of Information at] the University of California, Berkeley, that covers Chinese media....