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The imprisonment of Hua, a Stanford University scientist and permanent resident of the United States, raised objections from former U.S. President Bill Clinton, his colleagues at Stanford University, and others. But nine years later, he remained in jail. Hua was arrested while visiting China and accused of revealing state secrets, a charge used frequently against…
Beijing police detained Wang, a former student leader and frequent contributor to overseas publications, after he signed petitions calling for the release of Tiananmen Square-era political prisoners and for new legal protections of human rights. The Hong Kong daily Lien Ho Pao reported in late July 1995 that Beijing authorities planned to prosecute Wang for…
Gao, a reporter and columnist, was detained by Beijing police on April 24, 2014, and charged with illegally providing state secrets abroad, according to the Independent Chinese PEN Center. In a televised confession on state-run China Central Television on May 8, Gao Yu expressed “deep remorse.” But in October, her lawyer, Mo Shaoping, said she…
Xl, Beijing correspondent for the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao, was arrested on Sept. 27, 1993, and sentenced to 12 years in prison on March 28, 1994, for “espionage” and “stealing state secrets.” The “secrets” in question included unpublished interest rate changes on savings and loans at the People’s Bank of China, as well as…
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…
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…
Wei, one of the most prominent dissidents in China and former co-editor of the pro-democracy journal Tansuo (Explorations), was convicted on Dec. 13, 1995, by the Beijing Intermediate People’s Court of “conspiring to subvert the government.” Foreign reporters were barred from attending the trial. The dissident’s 14-year prison sentence was upheld on Dec. 28, following…
Chinese journalist Chen Jieren is serving a 15-year sentence in Chenzhou city, Hunan province, after being convicted of picking quarrels and provoking trouble, extortion, operating an illegal business, coercive business trading, and corruption in connection to his political blog Jieren Guancha. Chenzhou police arrested Chen, a freelance columnist who frequently published articles critical of Communist…
On two occasions in November 2007, Ekberjan used his cell phone to record sounds of riots in his home town of Turpan. The audio files, which included the noise of rioters, sirens, and a voice-over of Ekberjan describing what was happening, were sent to friends in the Netherlands, and later used in news reports by…
Uighur website manager Gheyrat Niyaz, sometimes referred to as Hailaite Niyazi, is serving a sentence of 15 years after being convicted on charges of endangering state security. Police arrested Niyaz, who managed and edited the Uighur-language news website Uighurbiz, in his home in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region’s capital of Urumqi in October 2009. According…