media - Almost 800,000 not arrested for endangering state security

An all too typical mistake in the South China Morning Post, explained in the China Digital News by Bruce Gilley. The Hong Kong based daily had reported that China had arrested last year over 800,000 citizens for endangering the state security. That is the cliche about China as the paper used to distribute in the past.
Gilley points out that the figure is the total number of people that were arrested, while the arrests based on 'state security' charges was not given.

The last time I can find a report on that figure at the NPC was in 2003, when Han Zubin said 3,400 were arrested and 3,550 charged under the state security law in 2002.

That is still thousands too much, but compared to the hundreds of thousands falsely reported by the SCMP China seems to look like a paradise for human rights.