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Hong Kong, March 18, 2014–The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Chinese authorities to immediately release three journalists who were arrested almost two weeks ago and remain in jail for their coverage of events in Tiananmen Square.

I’ve known Paul Mooney since we worked together at Time Warner’s Hong Kong-based magazine Asiaweek, which closed in December 2001. After that we’d overlapped in Beijing for several stints. A lot has been written about China’s refusal to give him a visa to let him go back to Beijing to work as a features writer…

Hong Kong, August 29, 2013–Chinese authorities should release a journalist who has been jailed since Friday, after he accused an official of wrongdoing with posts on his personal microblog, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Hong Kong, July 16, 2013–Chinese authorities must conduct an independent and thorough investigation into reports that a plainclothes police officer said to be involved in an auto accident in Kunming City, Yunnan, threatened a television journalist trying to cover the collision, and damaged the news crew’s equipment, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

CPJ’sAsia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz will launched a special report on China in Hong Kong’sForeign Correspondents Club. The panel discussion was moderated by CPJ board member David Schlesinger.

Hong Kong, March 6, 2013–As China’s new leadership takes office, a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists will shed light on the shifting dynamics of censorship within China and the expanding role of its state media across the world.

CPJ called on Hong Kong’s government to withdraw a proposal that would limit journalists’ access to information about business leaders.  The proposal would obstruct investigative reporting and affect the transparency of businesses, CPJ found. Bob Dietz, CPJ Program Coordinator for Asia, speaks to China’s South China Morning Post, on the downward trend for media with the proposed law.  Click…