Users of China's principal Twitter-like service, Sina Weibo, have reported difficulties posting messages during a argumentative kill in cold blood trial.
Gu Kailai, the spouse of an ex-Communist Party official, is indicted of murdering a British businessman, Neil Heywood.
The microblog is keenly watched by the authorities since its users frequently confer sensitive topics.
Issues with posting appeared to have lasted for about an hour. Sina blamed "a technical error".
In March, the Chinese supervision done Sina Weibo turn off the microblog's commenting function for a few days after posts about rumours of a army coup.
Ms Gu's hearing has right away finished - a outcome will be voiced after that - and Weibo appears to be back to normal. But on Sina.com portal, users are still not able to obtain results by probing is to name "Gu Kailai".
Instead, a summary is displayed: "According to the applicable laws and policies, hunting results for #Gu Kailai are not shown."
Shortly after the beginning of the hearing @GreatFireChina wrote on Twitter: "No one can post anything on Weibo right away as the submit space only disappeared. FYI: Gu Kailai kill in cold blood hearing begins."
Some users found a way to confer the box by referring to Ms Gu by her initials.
"Impossible to post #gukailai hearing headlines on Weibo. Finally take over with her initials GKL. Let's see how long it'll take censors to delete," wrote @LiYuan6 .
She after that referred to that the microblog would not enable her to repost messages about the trial, created by Sina Weibo's "own authorized headlines account and Xinhua's authorized account".
Other Chinese microblogging services QQ Weibo and Sohu Weibo do not appear to have suffered as ample censorship, nonetheless some users have referred to that their posts had been removed.
"QQ.com private my posting! Some subdepartment contingency have done the preference [to eliminate it]; so we give up, no more reposting on the trial," wrote QQ Weibo user Jing Gege.
Several users criticised the supervision and the trial, which was closed to the public.
"Trial of the century, 5 factors: allocated court, allocated judge, allocated lawyers, pre-determined crimes and foregone conclusions," wrote a QQ Weibo associate called Chaoge.
On Sohu Weibo, user Sanfenzhongde posted: "Outside the justice house, Chinese and unfamiliar reporters are stopped at the back the thong lines 50m away [from the justice room], and there are a lot of policemen around."
A justice authorized told reporters Ms Gu, whose husband Bo Xilai was the Communist Party head in Chongqing, had not contested the assign that she had killed Mr Heywood by poisoning in 2011.
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