Censorship Vault: Throwing Beggars
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
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An Appeal to the 17th Party Congress to Pass a Press and Publication Law – Zan Aizong
Hangzhou-based journalist and blogger Zan Aizong seizes on the arrival of the 17th CPC National Congress, now underway in Beijing, to issue a call for a law guaranteeing journalists’ rights. Translated by CDT (with thanks...
People’s Daily Reporter Assaulted While Gathering News In Fenghuang – Tianya
ESWN has translated a firsthand account of the journalists who were beaten while reporting on the collapse of the bridge in Hunan (original Chinese here). Five reporters from five papers had gone to a hostel where family members of victims of the collapse were gathering: There was nobody at the reception. The local government required […]
Death Toll In China Bridge Collapse Climbs to 64 – AP
While other domestic journalists were stopped to investigating this accident, the official Xinhua News Agency had latest death toll in Tuojiang Bridge collapse. From AP, via The International Herald Tribune: The death toll in the collapse of a bridge in southern China jumped to 64 after rescuers found 17 bodies in the rubble, a state […]
China Reporters Probing Bridge Disaster “Beaten” – Chris Buckley
Reuters reports that Chinese journalists covering a recent bridge collapse in Hunan were beaten by “local thugs.” Another report (in Chinese) on overseas news website Duowei.com revealed that those “thugs” are local Director of Agriculture Bureau and his staff. From Reuters: Chinese journalists probing a bridge collapse that killed dozens of people said they were […]
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