4 arrested on prostitution charge

Four men were arrested by the Haidian procuratorate in Beijing on Wednesday, for duping young women, some of them minors, into working as prostitutes, the Beijing News said on Friday.

The two chief suspects, Hu Weidong and Meng Zhibang, are accused of posing as the operators of the modeling firm Yuanyuan Film and Video Studio. However, when women applied to join, they were told they had to abide by the "hidden rule" of the modeling industry and have sex with the two men, prosecutors said.

The case came to light after two women, 18-year-old twins Baobao and A Zi, posted a "Letter to Zhang Weigang, director of Haidian public security bureau" on their blog on May 30. In it they described how they were duped by Hu and Meng and forced to work as prostitutes.