A farmer in Hebei reported illegal sewage discharge and was sued for reputation infringement. Did that farmer break the law?

The thing is, Mr. Zhang, a farmer in Tangshan, Hebei Province, found that a large number of fish died in his fish pond. Then he found through investigation that a coking gas company was not far from his fish pond, and secretly discharged wastewater into his fish pond through the underground pipeline buried by their company, so he has been reporting this matter to the environmental protection department. However, the environmental protection department did not explain or deal with Mr. Zhang An, so his son released a short video on this matter to safeguard his rights and interests.

However, only two farmers cannot successfully defend their rights. Instead, Yi Rong Company reported a case of fabricating facts to infringe the right of reputation, which was accepted by the court. The focus is whether there is such a violation of the right of reputation. First of all, we saw that a large number of fish died in this fish pond. He contracted this fish pond, which has about 1000 mu of land. On one side of the fish pond, there are several pipes with black water inside. The above is Mr. Zhang's statement, but at that time, he didn't know how to save evidence, didn't call the police in time, and didn't report it to the environmental protection department in time.

It was too late to report it to them, and after they reported the investigation, they said that the water discharged by the company and the water surface of the canteen contracted by him did not belong to the same water surface, so why did it lead to a large area of dead fish in the culture area? Why can't fish, land and aquatic animals survive? This also remains to be investigated. In the end, the court ruled that Mr. Zhang immediately stopped the infringement and asked him to delete all the speeches, pictures, articles and videos spread on the Internet. Finally, he had to apologize publicly to eliminate the network influence of this matter.

Whatever it is, it tells us to understand the law correctly. No matter what the case is, the victim must find the evidence and get it, so as to report it better. With the factual basis, the law can be dealt with according to law and justice can be done to everyone.