From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media:
Dai, 79, a retired journalist who worked for Xinhua, appealed to the Beijing No 2 Intermediate People’s Court to overturn a General Administration of Press and Publication (Gapp) order sent to the China Writers’ Association last year urging the Writers Publishing House not to reprint his book, A Narrow Escape From Death, which describes his 21 years on prison farms.
The court, after nearly three weeks of “consideration and consultation with upper-level authorities”, rejected Dai’s lawsuit, claming that he had “no legal qualification to be a plaintiff against Gapp, which issued the order to the publishing house and the China Writers Association rather than against himself as an individual”. [Full text]
