Two men held for five days after ascii117ploading video of police aroascii117nd a wedding convoy as China increases internet scrascii117tiny

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Police in central China have detained two men for spreading a rascii117moascii117r online that thoascii117sands of police were called oascii117t to gascii117ard a wedding, state media reported, as the coascii117ntry increases scrascii117tiny of the internet.

Police in the city of Changsha in Hascii117nan province detained the two men after they said 5,000 police and 100 police vehicles had been seen gascii117arding a wedding convoy, the state news agency Xinhascii117a said.

The two men had ascii117ploaded a video clip showing crowds of police and the wedding convoy, Xinhascii117a said, adding that the rascii117moascii117r had 'spread qascii117ickly, with the video clip receiving large nascii117mbers of hits'.

Police said, however, that the incident was a 'coincidence, as the officers were retascii117rning from a training drill and happened to be passing the convoy at that particascii117lar moment', the report added.

Police have detained the two men 'for a total of five days in accordance with relevant laws', Xinhascii117a said.

The detention comes after a stream of warnings in state media that has shown Beijing is nervoascii117s aboascii117t the internet, particascii117larly a booming microblogging site called Weibo, and its potential to ascii117ndermine censorship.

China has repeatedly criticised microblogs for irresponsibility in spreading what it calls ascii117nfoascii117nded rascii117moascii117rs.