（2006年9月20日纽约）保护记者委员会关注中国的爱琴海网站创始人被捕，这个受欢迎的网站已于3月9日被关闭。据新闻报道和保护记者委员会消息，张建红于九月9月6日因其网络政论被指控为“煽动颠覆罪”而遭拘留。张以力虹为笔名最近在互联网上发表文章，尖锐批评政府在北京奥运会召开两年前对中国公民的处置。
张是在一些用互联网倡导公民权利、抗议侵犯人权或呼吁更大民主的异议记者、作家、活动家、律师、学者遭到持续镇压之际被捕的。活动家杨茂东 （笔名郭飞熊）、和中国民主党活动家陈树庆因他们的网络文章于上周被分别控以非法出版与煽动颠覆而遭监禁。
保护记者委员会执行主任乔。西蒙（Joel Simon）说：“在答应主办2008年奥运会时邀请国际监督的中国，仍然决心窒息所有的国内批评。我们呼吁有关当局立即释放张建红，并且遵守其政府承诺，在奥运会前容许媒体自由”
有关当局还未明确他们对张建红的指控，不过他的许多文章是强烈批评中央政府作为的。他在被拘留前两天所撰写的一篇文章中，曾呼吁关注国际组织对政府人权记录的批评，特别是在奥运会开始前的两年，对于记者及其消息来源的恶劣处置。张将这种情形喻为“奥运门”。
根据中文网新闻报道和保护记者委员会消息，警察是在中国东部浙江省宁波市的张建红家里将他带走的，并没收了他的电脑设备。他的家属后来收到当地公安局的通知，说他因涉嫌“煽动颠覆国家政权”被捕，该罪名可判处数年徒刑。
48岁的张建红是受欢迎的文学和新闻网站“爱琴海”的创始人，并是该网站于今年三月因未经授权张贴国内外新闻被关闭前的编辑。近来，他也是几家美国中文网的撰稿人，其中包括博讯、民主论坛，以及与被禁中国宗教团体法轮功有关的大纪元。
保护记者委员会是纽约的一个非盈利的独立组织，在世界范围内维护新闻自由。更多的消息请访问网站：www.cpj.org.
亚洲项目协调人
鲍伯。迪兹（Bob Dietz）[email protected]
亚洲项目高级研究员
齐思盈（Kristin Jones ）
保护记者委员会
纽约第七大街330号11层 邮编10001
电话1－212－465－ 1004
传真 1－212－465－9568
（独立中文笔会狱中作家委员会根据英文原稿翻译）
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CHINA： Founder of popular Aegean Sea Web site arrested
New York， September 20， 2006— The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the arrest in China of the founder of Aegean Sea， the popular Web site closed down March 9. Zhang Jianhong was detained September 6 on allegations of “inciting subversion” through his online political essays， according to news reports and CPJ sources. Zhang‘s most recent Internet essay， written under the pen name Li Hong， was sharply critical of the government’s treatment of Chinese citizens two years ahead of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Zhang‘s detention comes amid a sustained crackdown on dissident journalists， essayists， activists， lawyers and scholars who use the Internet to advocate for citizens’ rights， protest human rights abuses or call for greater democracy. Activist Yang Maodong （who goes by the pen name Guo Feixiong）， and China Democracy Party activist Chen Shuqing were jailed last week on charges of illegal publishing and inciting subversion through their online writings.
“China， which invited international scrutiny when it agreed to host the 2008 Olympic Games， remains determined to stifle all domestic criticism，” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “We call on the authorities to release Zhang Jianhong immediately， and abide by the commitments that the government has made ahead of the Games to allow media freedoms.”
Authorities have not clarified their allegations against Zhang， but many of his essays were highly critical of central government actions. An essay written two days before his detention called attention to international organizations‘ criticism of the government’s human rights record and in particular the poor treatment of journalists and their sources two years before the start of the Olympics. Zhang referred to the situation as “Olympicgate.”
Police took Zhang from his home in Ningbo， in eastern China‘s Zhejiang province， according to Chinese-language online news reports and CPJ sources. His computer equipment was confiscated and his family was later notified by the local Public Security Bureau that he had been arrested on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state authority，” a crime that brings a prison sentence of several years.
Zhang， 48， was a founder and editor of the popular literary and news Web site Aegean Sea （Aiqinhai） until it was closed in March for unauthorized posting of international and domestic news. He had also been a recent contributor to several U.S.-based Chinese-language Web sites， including Boxun， the pro-democracy forum Minzhu Luntan， and Epoch Times， which is affiliated with the banned Chinese religious group Falun Gong.
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Bob Dietz [email protected] Asia Program Coordinator Kristin Jones [email protected] Asia Program Senior Researcher Committee to Protect Journalists 330 Seventh Ave， 11th floor New York， NY 10001 +1 212 465 1004 www.cpj.org