2014-08-04
A newspaper vendor talks to a customer at her booth on a street in Shanghai, Jan. 8, 2013.AFP
Chinese authorities have released an outspoken whistleblowing journalist after nearly a year in detention on “defamation” charges following his probe on a number of high-profile corruption cases.
Liu Hu, a reporter with Guangzhou’s Modern Express newspaper, was released from Beijing’s No. 1 Detention Center on bail, which means his release is likely to have conditions attached to it, his lawyer announced via social media on Sunday.