{"id":183631,"date":"2015-05-17T21:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T04:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=183631"},"modified":"2015-05-18T23:47:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T06:47:15","slug":"gao-yu-an-egg-breaking-against-the-communist-partys-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/05\/gao-yu-an-egg-breaking-against-the-communist-partys-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Gao Yu: An Egg Breaking Against the Party&#8217;s Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the South China Morning Post, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/1800499\/chinese-journalist-gao-yu-egg-breaking-against-communist-partys\"><strong>Verna Yu profiles journalist Gao Yu<\/strong><\/a>, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2015\/04\/journalist-gao-yu-sentenced-to-seven-years-over-state-secrets\/\">sentenced last month to seven years in prison<\/a> for allegedly &#8220;leaking state secrets,&#8221; and talks about her work with former colleagues and professors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ironically, Gao has become the victim of the intensified ideological controls she has reported, political observers say. Gao\u2019s articles have long ensured her a place under the watchful eyes of the authorities but after her release in 1999, her work was largely tolerated &#8212; until recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has to do with the deteriorating overall environment,\u201d said Hu Ping, an exiled intellectual living in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Hu said Gao\u2019s jailing came amid a wave of crackdowns on liberal intellectuals and party elders, journalists, rights lawyers, NGOs and \u201cbig V\u201d celebrity bloggers in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Her former colleague Wang Juntao, who was also jailed after the Tiananmen crackdown, said Gao was aware of how dangerous her job was but accepted that this was a price to pay as an independent journalist under a one-party regime. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/society\/article\/1800499\/chinese-journalist-gao-yu-egg-breaking-against-communist-partys\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/gao-yu\/\">Gao Yu&#8217;s case<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/press-freedom\">press freedom in China<\/a>, via CDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the South China Morning Post, Verna Yu profiles journalist Gao Yu, who was sentenced last month to seven years in prison for allegedly &#8220;leaking state secrets,&#8221; and talks about her work with former colleagues and professors: Ironically, Gao has become the victim of the intensified ideological controls she has reported, political observers say. 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