Guangdong Province's New Express Daily published a front-page article on Wednesday condemning police for detaining one of the paper's reporters based on what the publication calls groundless accusations.

Chen Youngzhou, a reporter with the New Express Daily, was detained on October 19 by four Hunan Province policemen for his ten articles criticizing the business practices of Zoomlion, a Chengsha-based engineering company, which the company alleges damaged its reputation.

Zoomlion claimed that Chen never interviewed any staff of the company before publishing the articles.

Wednesday's article was the epitome of sarcasm; as the New Express Daily went on to thank police for not using "secret weapons" to initiate the arrest of the supposed suspect. Likewise, they promised to salute the police personally if the officers can find any evidence of wrongdoing that the newspaper might have missed.

Fact-checking all 10 articles written by Chen, the only mistake reported is that he wrote "advertisement expenses are 513 million yuan," rather than "advertisement and business entertainment expenses are 513 million yuan."