'Free Our Man!': Chinese Paper demands government free jailed reporter
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[QUOTE]BEIJING – A Chinese newspaper made a rare front-page appeal to police to free one of its investigative reporters who was jailed after writing about alleged fraud at a huge state-linked company.
"Please free our man" read the large headline of the editorial on the front of The New Express tabloid, which ran on Wednesday in the southern city of Guangzhou.
The newspaper appealed for the public to press for the release of journalist Chen Yongzhou, who was seized by police from the neighboring Hunan province on Oct. 19 after a series of reports about Zoomlion, a giant engineering firm.
The firm, 20-percent owned by Hunan's provincial government and listed on the stock market, is a major taxpayer to Changsha, Hunan’s capital.
Chen's arrest comes amid an ongoing campaign against the "spreading of rumors" that has targeted journalists and bloggers. Some 250,000 Chinese journalists across China have also been required to attend special government-sponsored study sessions.
China's media are highly controlled by the government at various levels, and the spectacle of open defiance is rare.[/QUOTE]
Welp there goes all the newspaper staff.
Desire for freedom of press? 1000 years dungeon.
But in all seriousness, this is just getting more and more ridiculous. How much longer do they think they can possibly control information?
It's stunning to see a country as big as China have such backwards policies.
[QUOTE=soccerskyman;42627570]It's stunning to see a country as big as China have such backwards policies.[/QUOTE]
Its stunning how tabloids are standing up to the government.
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