From the Washington Post: A veteran Fuzhou journalist stood trial Thursday in the final step in a retaliation campaign launched after a Communist Party official gained national fame by publicly denouncing his superiors for condoning and covering up corruption. The case, in southern Fujian province on the Taiwan Strait, opened a window on an important […]
From Reuters, via Arab Times: The ousted Communist Party chief of a Chinese county who wore a bullet-proof vest for years while fighting graft was himself sentenced to life in prison for corruption on Thursday, a source close to the defendant said. Huang Jin’gao, 53, was convicted by the Nanping Intermediate People’s Court in the […]
From Chinaelections.org: According Xinhua news, formal charges of corruption have been filed against Huang Jin’gao, the former Party Secretary of Lianjiang County in Fujian Province who publicized corruption in his region last year. The charges were filed in the Nanping Middle People’s Court on August 3rd, 2005, accusing him, among other things, of illegally accepting […]
China Elections and Governance has published a summary of the Chinese language press coverage of the case against corruption fighter Huang Jingao: All of these accusations were attributed to “unnamed sources”, “high level officials” or, simply preceded with the phrase “it is said⋯.” In fact, even his shuang gui was only “said” and not officially […]
From the South China Morning Post, via Asia Pacific Media Network: The “anti-corruption hero” Communist Party chief of Lianjiang county in Fujian province has allegedly taken 2 million yuan in bribes and failed to account for the source of 6 million yuan in his possession. The allegations were the latest made in a report by […]
From the South China Morning Post: The Communist Party chief of Fujian province’s Lianjiang county has been detained along with his wife after accusing his superiors of blocking corruption investigations. Huang Jingao was taken away from the county’s Lianjiang Royal Hotel by unidentified people on Wednesday afternoon before he was scheduled to attend a meeting.
Huang Jingao, who received threats after exposing corruption in Fujian, has been relieved of his duties as county Communist Party chief and confined to his home while officials carry out an investigation, according to the Washington Post: “The fate of the whistle-blower, Huang Jingao, party secretary for Lianjiang county in Fujian province, demonstrated the potential […]
Huang Jingao, Communist Party chief of Lianjiang County in Fujian Province, is now under surveillance and has been “rendered ineffective” at his post, after blowing the whistle on corrupt officials: “‘Lianjiang county officials have been told to make a clear break from Huang Jin’gao and march in step with Fuzhou,’ said the source, who spoke […]
The China Elections and Governance website has translated an article from Southern Weekend about changes in the focus of peasants’ activism in rural China: “Relying mainly on a recent Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) study, this article describes how the focus of peasant activism has moved from tax disputes to property rights, particularly in […]
Thanks to Eswn for also translating Huang Jingao’s open letter here. (It even has Huang’s photo.) It seems to me that the latest wave of “open letters” has some significant new characters from the past. Many of these voices are from people within the system. Huang Jingao, an official; Lu Yuegang, an elite journalist; Jiao […]
Also from today’s Washington Post: “……The party functionary, a 52-year-old former farmer with a middle-school education, captured the national imagination with his complaints because most Chinese are all too aware of the official corruption that has accompanied the last 25 years of economic liberalization. The tale of a county-level party secretary recounting his struggles against […]
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