Guy Gets 14 Months for Splashing Mao

The official Chinese Communist Party line on Mao Zedong is that he was "70% right and 30% wrong"—but defacing his portrait is still 100% forbidden. According to state media, a 42-year-old man who splashed ink on the huge portrait of the chairman that hangs in Beijing's Tiananmen Square has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for disrupting public order. Evidence of the attack was swiftly removed after the incident on March 6 last year, the AP reports. By Beijing's standards, the sentence is pretty lenient: Three men who chucked paint-filled eggs at the portrait during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were sentenced to at least 16 years each, AFP reports. (More Mao Zedong stories.)