An article in Asia Times looks at the lawsuit filed by journalist Cui Fan when local authorities in Inner Mongolia ordered her newspaper, the China Business Post, suspended:
The CCP’s Bureau of Publication and Press in Inner Mongolia in September ordered the China Business Post, a business weekly with circulation of around 400,000, to suspend publication for three months after it ran a report exposing suspicious cash transfers at a public bank in Changde City, Hunan province.
The bank was a branch of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), one of the country’s “Big Four” state commercial lenders and the only one that has not yet sold its shares to the public.
Unconvinced by the charges, Cui Fan, the journalist who wrote the report, filed a lawsuit with a court in the Inner Mongolian capital of Hohhot against the CCP press body, demanding a reversal of its decision and for it to make a symbolic compensation payment for damaging her reputation.
