Businessman jailed over illegal paper – Bill Savadove

From South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia (link):

Authorities said yesterday they had shut the illegal World Weekly newspaper and jailed a businessman who published it for four years.

A Shanghai court handed down the sentence to Zhu Yugui, of Shanghai Guiyi Tiancheng Culture Broadcasting, fining him and his company 44,000 yuan in February, local newspapers said.

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