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Uighur student Abduqeyum Ablimit was sentenced in 2014 to 3 years and 6 months in prison on charges of separatism for contributing to the Xinjiang news website Uighurbiz. He was jailed in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and CPJ has been unable to determine whether he was released on schedule in 2017. …
Uighur student Akbar Imin is detained at an undisclosed location in Xinjiang on charges of participating in alleged separatist activities led by Ilham Tohti, founder of the Xinjiang news website Uighurbiz. Police arrested Imin, a contributor to Uighurbiz, in late January or early February 2014. Imin is one of seven students connected to Tohti who…
Uighur writer, blogger, and scholar Ilham Tohti is serving a life sentence on charges of separatism. Police in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, arrested Tohti, founder of the Uighur news website Uighurbiz, in January 2014, and held him in pretrial detention for eight months before sentencing him to life imprisonment. Police…
Chinese writer and reporter Lü Gengsong is serving an 11-year prison sentence on charges of “subverting state power.” Hangzhou police arrested Lü, who frequently reported on the sentencing of rights activists, in July 2014. Lü, a freelance writer and member of the Democracy Party of China, was detained on July 7, 2014, and his…
Police in Xinjiang’s Aksu city arrested blogger Omerjan Hasan in early 2016. He is serving a sentence of 15 years for publishing an unofficial history of the Xinjiang region. Police arrested Hasan, a Uighur journalist, writer, and webmaster also known as Bozqir, sometime in March or April 2016, according to the World Uyghur Congress and…
Chengdu police arrested Li Zhaoxiu, a volunteer journalist for the independent human rights news website 64 Tianwang, in September 2017. In August 2019, she was sentenced to two years and six months in prison for “picking quarrels and provoking troubles.” Police in the Shuangliu District of Chengdu, Sichuan province, arrested Li while she was waiting…
Christopher Allen, a British-American journalist, was shot dead near South Sudan’s borders with Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, government and opposition forces spokespeople told CPJ. Allen, 26, had been embedded with Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) rebels for two weeks at the time of his death, the group’s spokesperson Lam Paul Gabriel,…
Reporter Sun died in a hospital in Kuitun, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, 10 days after being beaten by several men at a construction site, news reports said. At least six young men attacked Sun at the site, where the reporter had gone to meet a source. Authorities dismissed journalism-related motives, saying the attack stemmed from…
Meza, 51, a renowned street reporter for several broadcast outlets, was killed after a car chase through the streets of La Ceiba, capital of Atlántida province on the northern coast, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. Gunmen finally overtook and shot Meza on the doorstep of his home. Colleagues said Meza specialized in helping…
Unidentified men at an illegal coal mine in Huiyuan County, Shanxi province, severely beat reporter Lan on January 9, leading to his death the following day, according to news reports. Lan had been working for the Shanxi bureau of the Beijing-based newspaper Zhongguo Maoyi Bao (China Trade News) for less than a month, his colleagues…