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China Jails Gao Yu For Seven Years For ‘Leaking State Secrets’

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2015-04-17

image (62)Demonstrators hold placards with portraits of Chinese journalist Gao Yu during a protest in support of her outside the central government liaison office in Hong Kong, April 17, 2015.AFP
A Beijing court on Friday handed a seven-year jail term to veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu after finding her guilty of “leaking state secrets overseas,” it said.

The Beijing No. 3 Intermediate People’s Court found 71-year-old political journalist Gao Yu guilty of “breaking international law and supplying highly classified state secrets to persons overseas,” Continue reading →

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China jails journalist over leaked ‘state secrets’

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Gao Yu, seen here in a file image taken in Hong Kong on 5 February 2007

Authorities say Gao Yu leaked a sensitive document that was then widely reposted abroad

China has jailed a top journalist for seven years for leaking a confidential paper to a foreign website.

Gao Yu, 71, had “illegally provided state secrets to foreigners”, the court in Beijing said. Continue reading →

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China jails journalist Gao Yu over ‘state secrets’

Posted on 04/16/2015 by | China jails journalist Gao Yu over ‘state secrets’已关闭评论

HONG KONG-CHINA-MEDIAGao Yu, seen here in a file image taken in Hong Kong on 5 February 2007

Authorities say Gao Yu leaked a sensitive document that was then widely reposted abroad

China has jailed a top journalist for seven years Continue reading →

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Beijing Court To Issue Verdict in Gao Yu ‘State Secrets’ Case

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Gao Yu speaks at an International PEN conference in Hong Kong, Feb. 5, 2007.
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A court in the Chinese capital will announce a verdict in the case of outspoken veteran journalist Gao Yu on Friday after repeatedly delaying judgment Continue reading →

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Mocking Mao Backfires for Chinese TV Host

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By CHRIS BUCKLEY APRIL 9, 2015 4:53 AM April 9, 2015 4:53 am

0The television host Bi Fujian’s performance of a song from the Mao-era opera “Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy,” with irreverent asides, was captured on video.

HONG KONG — Mao Zedong famously said a revolution is not a dinner party. Nor, it seems, Continue reading →

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AP President: Killing of Journalists Should Be a War Crime

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President and CEO of the Associated Press Gary Pruitt delivers a speech at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club, March 30, 2015.

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HONG KONG—The president and CEO of The Associated Press called on Monday for changes to international laws that would make it a war crime to kill journalists or take them hostage. Continue reading →

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KECHENG FANG:Behind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper

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Censorship and commercial pressures have driven the once-revered Southern Weekly to the margins.

BY MARIA REPNIKOVA, JANUARY 29, 2015

CHINA-MEDIA-CENSORSHIP-POLITICSBehind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper

In early January 2013, hundreds of protesters gathered in the southern Chinese city of Continue reading →

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China’s Brave Underground Journal—II

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Ian Johnson DECEMBER 18, 2014 ISSUE

Remembrance an online journal published in Tiantongyuan, China

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Ouyang Xiang, son of a denounced former Party secretary in Heilongjiang province, being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for sending an unsigned letter to the local revolutionary committee in his father’s defense, Harbin, November 1968. The sign around his neck bears his name Continue reading →

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