Minitrue 2017: August—Natural Disasters
This series is a month-by-month recap of censorship instructions issued to the media by government authorities in 2017, and then leaked and distributed online. The names of issuing bodies have been omitted to protect sources. The single directive obtained by CDT in August after an entirely silent July was another illustration of the sensitivity of natural disasters, in a similar vein to June’s order to delete a report that officials ignored villagers’ warningsDecember 25, 2017