A court in south China jailed a Chinese journalist for 10 years on Saturday for illegally providing state secrets to overseas organizations, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in February that China had the most journalists in prison, 42, of any country for the sixth year in a row.
Prosecutors in Hunan province told the Intermediate People’s Court that Shi Tao, 37, a former news editor for the Contemporary Business News in provincial capital Changsha, e-mailed notes he took at an April 2004 internal newspaper meeting to an unnamed overseas publication, Xinhua said without naming the publication.
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