Australian journalists flee China; government restricts visas for foreign reporters
Taipei, September 8, 2020 – Chinese authorities should end their intimidation of international journalists and let all media operate freely and without fear of reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Yesterday, Bill Birtles, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Beijing correspondent, and Mike Smith, Shanghai correspondent for the Australian Financial Review, left China for Australia…
Ke Chengbing
Chinese labor rights journalist Ke Chengbing is being held in pretrial detention on accusations of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Shenzhen police arrested Ke on March 20, 2019. Ke is a reporter and editor for the labor rights news website Xinshengdai (New Generation), formerly known as ILabour.net. He covered labor rights issues and the prevalence…
Yang Zhengjun
Chinese editor and reporter Yang Zhengjun being held in pretrial detention on accusations of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” since early 2019. Yang is a reporter and editor for the labor rights news website Xinshengdai (New Generation), formerly known as ILabour.net. He covered labor rights issues and the prevalence of black lung disease among Chinese…
Wei Zhili
Chinese labor rights journalist Wei Zhili is being held in pretrial detention on accusations of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble.” Shenzhen police arrested Wei on March 20, 2019. Wei is a reporter and editor for the labor rights news website Xinshengdai (New Generation), formerly known as ILabour.net. He covered labor rights issues and the prevalence…
Jiang Yefei
Chinese political cartoonist Jiang Yefei is serving a sentence of six years and six months in prison on charges of “inciting subversion of state power,” and “illegally crossing a national border.” Thai authorities extradited Jiang to China in November 2015, where he was then held in pretrial detention for two years and eight months. Jiang…
Liu Feiyue
Suizhou police arrested Liu Feiyue, the editor and founder of the human rights news website Civil Rights & Livelihood Watch, known in Chinese as Minsheng Guancha, in November 2016. He is serving a five-year sentence for “subverting state power.” Police detained Liu on November 16, 2016, according to his website. On November 24, Minsheng Guancha…
Vietnamese blogger Truong Duy Nhat, who disappeared in Thailand, imprisoned in Vietnam
Bangkok, March 21, 2019 — Vietnamese authorities must immediately and unconditionally release detained blogger Truong Duy Nhat and allow him to travel freely outside of the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
How many journalists are jailed in China? Censorship means we don’t know
Reporting on China’s harassment of journalists has never been easy. Lately it’s been getting much harder, which suggests that conditions for the press could be worsening. At least 47 journalists were jailed in China at the time of CPJ’s 2018 prison census and I am investigating at least a dozen other cases, but the details…
CPJ calls on Thailand to account for missing Vietnamese blogger
Bangkok, February 6, 2019–The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Thai authorities to investigate the disappearance of Vietnamese blogger Truong Duy Nhat, publicly report on that investigation’s findings, and take all measures to ensure that the journalist has not been illegally abducted or detained.