Another investigative journalist is in trouble in China. From Global Times:
A Liang, a reporter for Beijing-based news portal website qianlong.com, was ordered to see Laiyang police investigators on August 9 while he was taking his annual holiday at home.
“The police said they would fly to my hometown if I refused to return to Beijing,” reads a written statement by A Liang released on the website of Xinwenhui Law Firm, A Liang’s legal counsel.
Cooperating with fellow reporter Liu Hongchang, A Liang wrote a report on Shandong Hilead Biotechnological Company, a “star enterprise” of Laiyang according to the government.
The report said the company’s financial plan overstated its role as a giant in the industry, and disclosed alleged additional industry problems.
Two days after the report’s release on July 21, Qianlong received a letter from the Laiyang Municipal Committee’s publicity department saying the report was false and requesting its deletion.
Read a recent Los Angeles Times report on the plight of investigative reporters in China, via CDT.
