2016 prison census: 259 journalists jailed worldwide
December 13, 2016 12:00 AM ET
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Chinese journalist released but restrictions remain
July 11, 2013 1:25 PM ET
Hong Kong, July 11, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Chinese filmmaker and photographer Du Bin after 37 days of detention but calls on authorities to refrain from pursuing formal charges against him....
Chinese journalist held after publishing book on Tiananmen
June 13, 2013 3:32 PM ET
New York, June 13, 2013--Chinese authorities must immediately release a journalist who has been detained since May 31 following the publication of his book on the Tiananmen massacre, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Du Bin's detention, which was...
China's media conditions threaten Chen Guangcheng
May 2, 2012 3:18 PM ET
The battle over blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng's freedom and well-being is a battle over information. Both Chinese and U.S. officials are trying to spin the story their way. A few activists and media claim to speak for Chen, and...
Blind lawyer spurs news blackout in China
April 30, 2012 4:20 PM ET
News of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng has been censored for months. International news reports of his escape last week from incarceration in his home in Linyi, Shandong--apparently to U.S. protection, although his whereabouts remain unclear--has only intensified that censorship....
CPJ welcomes release of Hu Jia
June 26, 2011 7:20 PM ET
New York, June 26, 2011--The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of Hu Jia, the journalist and activist who was unjustly jailed in December 2007. He was freed after serving his three-and-a-half-year sentence on charges of inciting subversion....
Amid jail releases, Chinese journalist's sentence extended
June 23, 2011 5:31 PM ET
New York, June 23, 2011--Authorities in Shandong should overturn a second prison sentence handed down to freelance journalist Qi Chonghuai just days before the end of his term, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Two of three Chinese journalists...
Lawyer's footage of house arrest published in China
February 22, 2011 5:10 PM ET
Men in plainclothes recently harassed at least six foreign journalists in Shandong province. Vivid news footage shoes a group pelting CNN reporter Stan Grant and his photographer with rocks when they tried to visit the home of an activist under...
Washington reporters press China's Hu on human rights
January 20, 2011 1:02 PM ET
Thanks to Ben Feller and Hans Nichols for raising questions about China's human rights and press freedom record. A lot of Chinese journalists are grateful, too. When we urged U.S. President Barack Obama last week to raise press freedom concerns...