As Grip of Censors Endures in China, A Satirical Poem Leads to Jail Time – Edward Cody

From the Washington Post:
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All his life, Qin Zhongfei has been an ardent reader, a lover of literature and an amateur poet. But the drama he lived in this little mountain town, Qin said, has taught him that putting his thoughts into verse can be dangerous in China.

…Qin, 31, spent a month in jail on criminal charges because of a poem he wrote satirizing local officials accused of [Full Text]

Read a blogger’s Follow-up to the Qin Zhongfei case.

View the original Chinese report here.

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