Porn-showing cyber cafes shut down in Shanghai

Police of Shanghai's Minhang district have shut down unlicensed net cafes which screened pornography videos and allowed minors.

Under Chinese law, minors are banned from Internet bars.

Police seized all the equipment in the cafes, most of which were in rural Minhang District. One illegal cyber cafe in a village in Huacao Town was known to allow as young as 6-year-old. The cafe's customers watched porn. When an STV reporter visited one of the cyber cafes, he paid 2 yuan (32 US cents) to access a computer without being asked to show his ID card. The reporter found several minors between the ages of 6 to 13 inside. A customer was watching porn as children sat opposite him.