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Wu, an editor for China’s state news agency, Xinhua, was arrested for allegedly leaking an advance copy of then President Jiang Zemin’s 14th Communist Party Congress address to a journalist from the now defunct Hong Kong newspaper Kuai Bao (Express). His wife, Ma, editor of Zhongguo Jiankang Jiaoyu Bao (China Health Education News), was arrested…
Liu, a member of the editorial board of the literary magazine Jianna Literature and Arts Journal in Sichuan Province, was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in February 1987 for “vilifying the Socialist system.” Liu had also been active during the 1979-81 Democracy Wall period. His release, which was expected in February 1994, has not been…
Lin is the longest-serving journalist in CPJ’s worldwide census. Along with Chen Renjie and Chen Biling, he wrote and published a pamphlet titled Ziyou Bao (Freedom Report) in the early days of China ‘s economic reform. They distributed 300 copies of the pamphlet in the southern Chinese city of Fuzhou, Fujian province, in September 1982….
Police in Kashgar, a city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, arrested Chimengul Awut, a poet and editor for the state-owned Kashgar Publishing House, in July 2018, according to Radio Free Asia. Awut was arrested as part of a more than year-long crackdown on the publishing company in which several other former and current staff were…
Police in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region arrested former journalist Osman Zunun in 2018. He is detained at an undisclosed location for allegedly producing “problematic” and “dangerous” books, though no formal charges have been disclosed. Police in the city of Kashgar arrested Zunun, a former editor-in-chief of the state-owned Kashgar Publishing House, in early 2018,…
Police in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region arrested former journalist Abliz Omer in 2017. He is detained at an undisclosed location for allegedly producing “problematic” and “dangerous” books; no formal charges have been disclosed. Police in the city of Kashgar arrested Omer, a former editor-in-chief for the state-owned Kashgar Publishing House, in 2017, according to…
Police in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region arrested Uighur journalist Ablajan Siyit in October 2018. He is detained at an undisclosed location for allegedly producing “problematic” and “dangerous” books, though no formal charges have been disclosed. Police in the city of Kashgar arrested Siyit, deputy editor-in-chief and translator for the state-owned Kashgar Publishing House, on…
Uighur journalist Erkin Tursun is serving a 20-year sentence in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on anti-state charges. Police detained Tursun, a television host and producer for the state-owned Ili Television Station in Ghulja county, in March 2018. Tursun’s arrest came after he produced a program, “The World is Beautiful and Filled with Love and…
Police in Xinjiang detained Lu Guang, an award-winning freelance photographer who focuses on environmental and social issues, in early November 2018, according to media reports. The photographer’s wife Xu Xiaoli said in a statement that the family lost contact with Lu on November 3 while he was traveling in China. The journalist and his family…
Uighur publisher, editor, and writer Abdurahman Abey has been detained at an undisclosed location since he was arrested by police in July 2018. He is accused of advocating for separatism and religious extremism. Police in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region arrested Abey, the former director of the Xinjiang People’s Publishing House, on suspicion of “separatism…