Authorities Ban Dissident Web Site
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) strongly condemns the recent banning of the New Culture Forum’s Web site (http://www.xinwenming.net), which featured essays and articles advocating a fresh approach to dealing with China’s social and political problems. CPJ fears that the site’s former staff may now face political persecution by Chinese authorities.
Official warns Hong Kong media on Taiwan coverage
Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is deeply disturbed by the April 12 statements of a senior Chinese official, warning Hong Kong media that they are not free to report independently on the contentious issue of Taiwan’s political status.
China: CPJ protests jailing of reporter Gao Quinrong
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by the prolonged imprisonment of Gao Qinrong, a reporter for China’s state news agency, Xinhua. Gao has been in jail on trumped-up charges since December 4, 1998, for exposing flaws in a much-touted irrigation system in drought-plagued Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, according to his wife, Duan Maoying.
Attacks on the Press 1999: Enemies of the Press
Each year on World Press Freedom Day (May 3), CPJ announces its list of the ten worst enemies of the press. Those who made the list this year, as in the past, earned the dubious distinction by exhibiting particular zeal in the ruthless suppression of press freedom. They were singled out for their unrelenting and…
Attacks on the Press 1999: China
Conditions for the heavily-controlled Chinese press worsened dramatically in 1999 as a broad clampdown on dissent and free expression led to fresh arrests of journalists, massive propaganda campaigns and systematic efforts by the secret police to monitor and control the Internet. Eleven journalists were arrested in 1999, bringing the total number of journalists in prison…
Attacks on the Press 1999: Peru
President Alberto K. Fujimori continued his efforts to suppress critical reporting in a year that ended with the long-anticipated announcement that he would seek a third five-year term, a move widely considered unconstitutional. The Fujimori government’s systematic campaign to discredit Peru’s independent press earned him a place on CPJ’s list of the top 10 enemies…
Attacks on the Press 1999: Journalists Imprisoned
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Reporter jailed for exposing corruption
Click here to read more about press freedom conditions in CHINA New York, August 3, 2000 — Xinhua state news agency reporter Gao Qinrong has been in jail on trumped-up charges since December 4, 1998, for doing exactly what China’s leaders asked the country’s journalists to do: help fight corruption.