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Birth date 1980-11-23
Birth place Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province
Resident place Beijing City Continue reading
Sex Male
Birth date 1980-11-23
Birth place Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province
Resident place Beijing City Continue reading
2015-04-23
Tang Jingling, a top human rights lawyer in Guangzhou, and his wife Wang Yanfang in an undated photo.
(Photo courtesy of Wang Yanfang.)
Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong look set to move ahead with the subversion trial of the “Guangzhou Three” rights lawyers next month, Continue reading
Subversion, Public Order Cases of Tiananmen Anniversary Activists Move Closer to Trial已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Writers in Prison
Tagged Tang Jingling
April 23, 2015 3:32 PM
HONG KONG—A Chinese defense lawyer says he has learned that an interview with Voice of America’s Mandarin service is being cited in an indictment against his client, Yu Shiwen, Continue reading
VOA Interview Cited in Case Against Chinese Dissident已关闭评论
Posted in June 4th Commemoration, Writers in Prison
2015-04-17
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
China Jails Gao Yu For Seven Years For ‘Leaking State Secrets’已关闭评论
Posted in Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets
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
China jails journalist over leaked ‘state secrets’已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, Press Freedom, Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets
Mike Clarke / AFP
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the sentencing today, April 17, of independent Chinese journalist, Gao Yu on charges of leaking state secrets. The IFJ criticised the Chinese government for its ongoing attempts to intimidate and stifle media freedoms through the targeting of high-profile journalists such as Gao Yu and has called for a global media appeal to draw international attention to the case. Continue reading
IFJ strongly condemns sentencing of veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu已关闭评论
Posted in Writers in Prison
Tagged Gao Yu
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 Continue reading
China jails journalist Gao Yu over ‘state secrets’已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, Journalist, state secrets
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
Beijing Court To Issue Verdict in Gao Yu ‘State Secrets’ Case已关闭评论
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Tagged Gao Yu, state secrets