Executives charged in pornography case

Beijing Haidian District People's Court said it will publicly sentence four executives charged with posting pornography on the internet on Tuesday.

The court released the information via its official microblogging service on Monday, saying that the public sentence and related pictures will be also disclosed on Sina Weibo.

In addition, documents related to the case and the judgment are also to be disclosed on the court's website, bjgy.chinacourt.org.

The four defendants worked for Shenzhen QVOD Technology in Guangdong province, including Wang Xin, the chief executive officer.

In a change of tone from the first trial in January, Wang and the other three defendants pleaded guilty in the second trial, which began on Friday last week, saying that they had not shown sufficient self-discipline and lacked awareness of legal issues.

The four were accused of using the company platform to make profits by uploading pornography that was downloaded by paying customers, prosecutors said.

The prosecuting authority said during the first trial that Beijing police reviewed 29,841 videos from three servers seized from the company, of which, 21,251 contained pornographic content.