Jilted lover detained for slander, shifted to Hebei

SHIJIAZHUANG: Hebei province police have detained Yang Yongmeng, who used the Internet to slander his former girlfriend as an "AIDS-infected prostitute", Xinhua reported on Friday.

Police in Beijing's Xuanwu district handed Yang over to policemen from Rongcheng county of Hebei province where he is likely to be charged with slander.

Yang was born in Beijing in August 1976, and is married. Police said he had been detained for 15 days for suspected theft in Beijing in 1992.