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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Still No Word On Zhao Yan
The New York Times bureau reports that there is no news on the case of detained researcher and farmers’ rights advocate Zhao Yan. The FCCC remains deeply concerned about Zhao, who is charged with revealing state secrets. If convicted on that charge, Zhao Yan could get the death penalty. The New York Times continues to [...]
Security Agents Rough Up Reporters At South Korean Press Conference
The FCCC and a Japanese journalists group in Beijing have both sent letters of complaint to the Foreign Ministry over the rough handling of reporters by security agents trying to break up a news conference at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in January. About 30 journalists showed up to cover the presser by the South [...]
Tags: Beijing
China Blocks Coverage Of Zhao Ziyang’s Death
If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears, does it make a sound? Apparently that’s what the leadership was testing with the death of Zhao Ziyang – to the extent that it could. Handling the passing of the Communist Party chief who wept before students in Tiananmen Square on May 19, 1989, when [...]
Tags: Beijing
