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220. JIA JIA (released)

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Sex                              Male

Birth date              1980-08-08

Birth place             Xi’an City, Shaanxi Province

Resident place       Beijing and Hong Kong

Education                B.A. in Chinese Literature at Nanjing University Continue reading

Chinese journalist ‘disappears’ while trying to fly to Hong Kong

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A plane at Beijing airport. It is not known if Jia Jia boarded his flight to Hong Kong. Photograph: Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

A Chinese journalist has reportedly disappeared while attempting to fly from Beijing to Hong Kong, stoking fears he has become the latest victim of a widening Communist party crackdown on dissent. Continue reading

Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xi’s resignation

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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with media in a press conference with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani after their meeting at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Two weeks after China’s President toured state media offices and called for absolute loyalty from the press, a website with links to the government published an explosive letter asking him to resign “for the future of the country and the people.” Continue reading