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Yearly Archives: 2004
Zhao Yan Detention Part Of Wider Clampdown
Zhao Yan of the New York Times continues to be detained. Normally, charges must be brought within two months, but this has now been extended by a month into January. A lawyer has made three requests to see Zhao, but has been turned down each time. The NYT is continuing to push for his release. [...]
Zhao Yan Languishes In Detention
The FCCC remains deeply concerned about New York Times researcher and farmers’ rights advocate Zhao Yan. He remains in detention, formally charged with revealing state secrets. If convicted on that charge, Zhao Yan could get the death penalty. The New York Times continues to lobby on Zhao’s behalf, and continues to categorically deny that Zhao [...]
NY Times Employee Detained On Secrets Charge
New York Times employee Zhao Yan, a Chinese national, was detained September 17 on a Kafkaesque “leaking state secrets to foreigners” charge. A Tuesday, October 5 NYT editorial on the case said: “…Apparently, the “state secret” in this case was an advance report that Mr. Jiang was about to retire. The Times has said Mr. [...]
Journalists Disappointed By Official Tibet Reporting Trip
Tibet is usually off-limits for foreign journalists as travel permits are seldom granted. So the International Press Center, that ever-helpful arm of MOFA, has been organizing annual trips for the last three years. But the value of the Tibet trip seems to be diminishing rapidly. Many of the 30 or so journalists who traveled there [...]
Tags: Tibet
AP Photographer Beaten By Police At Asian Cup Finals
AP photographer Han Guan Ng was brutally beaten by plain-clothed Beijing police while he was covering minor crowd disturbances following China’s loss to Japan in the finals of the Asian Cup on August 7. He was clubbed over the head, pushed to the ground and kicked repeatedly by three or four of Beijing’s finest. When [...]
Tags: Beijing
