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China – Journalist murdered while covering illegal cooking oil scandal
Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Li Xiang, a journalist with Luoyang Television in Luoyang (in the eastern province of Henan) who had been following an illegal cooking oil scandal and had written about it in his blog, was stabbed to death yesterday. “We hope the authorities will carry out a thorough investigation and will seriously consider the possibility that Li was killed in connection with his work as a journalist,” Reporters Without Borders said, offering its (…)
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China – How China pursues its Internet control obsession
The authorities continue to reinforce their control of the Internet in China, which held its 10th annual China Internet Conference on 23 August in Beijing. Use of the Internet has grown enormously in recent years. China now has half a billion Internet users. Facebook and Twitter are censored but Sina Weibo, the Chinese microblogging website, has more than 200 million users. The public’s enthusiasm for the Internet and the government’s fear of online protests has resulted in constant (…)
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China – Blogger released from prison but placed under residential surveillance
Reporters Without Borders hails today’s release of the Chinese blogger Ran Yunfei (冉云飞) but regrets that he has been placed under residential surveillance at his home in Sichuan for six months, during which time he will be forbidden to express himself publicly. Detained on 20 February during a wave of arrests aimed at preventing a “jasmine revolution,” Ran is charged with inciting subversion of state authority. His case has been referred to the police. During his detention, Twitter users (…)
China – Media banned from covering Wenzhou high-speed train disaster properly
Reporters Without Borders condemns the severe restrictions that the Propaganda Department has imposed on media coverage of the high-speed train crash on 23 July in the southeastern city of Wenzhou, in which 39 people were killed. Wang Qinglei, a producer with state-owned China Central Television (中國中央電視台), was fired on 27 July because of his investigative coverage of the crash. The previous day, his News 1+1 programme was suspended without advance warning and without explanation after it (…)
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China – Were business newspaper’s investigative reporters fired or given other jobs?
Reporters Without Borders condemns the closure of the investigations unit at the daily China Economic Times (中国经济时报) at the behest of the newspaper’s management on 18 July and is concerned about the fate of Wang Keqin (王克勤), the respected journalist who had run the unit for years, and the five other people in his team. The unit’s closure, which defies all editorial logic, comes at a particularly repressive time for those who defend fundamental rights and for independently-minded journalists. “We (…)
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China – Dissident artist Ai Weiwei released conditionally after three months incommunicado
Reporters Without Borders is relieved that the dissident artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei (艾未未) was released conditionally today after being held for nearly three months. The official news agency Xinhua said the Public Security Bureau freed him because of his good behaviour, his “admission” of the “tax fraud” charges that had been brought against him, his health problems and other factors that were not specified. “We hope that Ai’s health has not deteriorated too much and we wish him a swift (…)
