2008

Common Sense As a Weapon “Using common sense as a weapon, we will surely destroy the nightmare woven with fear and lies.” Cheng Yizhong, former editor-in-chief of Nanfang Dushi Bao (Southern Metropolis News), was detained for five months in 2004 after the Guangzhou paper’s investigative reporting embarrassed local officials. The newspaper broke news that a…

Defending the Press Mo Shaoping, a prominent human rights lawyer based in Beijing, has represented a number of writers and editors, including the currently imprisoned journalists Zhang Lin, Lü Gengsong, and Shi Tao. In March, CPJ spoke with Mo about his work.

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