From AP:
The editor of a Chinese newspaper known for its aggressive reporting has been released early from prison after serving four years on corruption charges, a colleague at his newspaper and a journalists’ group said Saturday.
Yu Huafeng left a prison in the southern city of Panyu on Friday and immediately returned to his nearby home, according to a receptionist at the Southern Metropolitan Daily and Paris-based Reporters Without Borders.
The operator refused to give her name and said she had no details.
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