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

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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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IFJ strongly condemns sentencing of veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu

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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 →

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China jails journalist Gao Yu over ‘state secrets’

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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

Posted on 04/14/2015 by | Beijing Court To Issue Verdict in Gao Yu ‘State Secrets’ Case已关闭评论

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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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China: Release writers Gao Yu and Ilham Tohti

Posted on 12/08/2014 by | China: Release writers Gao Yu and Ilham Tohti已关闭评论

 

Gao-Yu-Ilham1(London, 21 November, 2014) – Chinese authorities should immediately and unconditionally release veteran journalist Gao Yu and writer and academic Ilham Tohti, a member of China’s Uyghur minority, PEN International said today. Continue reading →

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Chinese journalist charged with handing over state secrets

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Human rights fears grow as Gao Yu, 70, faces life sentence, while jailed Uighur scholar’s appeal is turned down

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Chinese journalist Gao Yu in 2012. State media have said she is accused of leaking an internal Communist party document to foreigners. Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP

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China has tried a veteran journalist for revealing state secrets and Continue reading →

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Chinese activist and journalist go on trial

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Reporter Gao faces charges of revealing state secrets while Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti’s life sentence appeal rejected.

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665003303001_3902930311001_201411218648692580-20Chinese authorities have put on trial an outspoken journalist accused of revealing state secrets and rejected an appeal by Continue reading →

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