{"id":6031,"date":"2006-01-25T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/01\/25\/a-public-protest-against-the-illegal-stoppage-of-the-freezing-point-weekly-magazine-li-datong\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:13:21","slug":"a-public-protest-against-the-illegal-stoppage-of-the-freezing-point-weekly-magazine-li-datong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/01\/a-public-protest-against-the-illegal-stoppage-of-the-freezing-point-weekly-magazine-li-datong\/","title":{"rendered":"A public protest against the illegal stoppage of the Freezing Point weekly magazine &#8211; Li Datong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFreezing Point (<span style=\"font-family:STHeiti;\">\u00c2\u00dc\u221e\u00c1\u00c7\u03c0\u00d4\u00ba\u00e2<\/span>editor Li Datong has written an open letter protesting <a href=\"\/2006\/01\/leading_publication_shut_down_in_china_philip_p_pan.php\" target=\"_blank\">the closure of his publication<\/a>. ESWN has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zonaeuropa.com\/20060126_3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">translated<\/a> the letter:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOn January 24, 2006, Tuesday, which the  deadline for the Freezing Point weekly magazine, the Beijing editorial staff  of Freezing Point worked as usual to edit and proof-read the weekly edition  scheduled for January 25.  At just after 4pm, we were ready with  everything and the pages were forwarded to the editor-in-chief for review and  print.  The unusual aspect was that there was no reaction for a long  while.  We gathered that all the newspaper leadership had been called to  the League Central Office for an emergency meeting and nobody was minding the  store.  This meant that something extraordinary was about to happen.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThen the skies fell down.  The newspaper  will be published as usual, because this is our obligation to our subscribers  and readers.  We looked for any possible errors and we patiently waited  for the breaking event.  Based on the fact that the Central Propaganda  Department never ceased in their criticisms of Freezing Point and most  recently the Central Propaganda Department criticism group issued an Cultural  Revolution-style critique of Yuan Weishi&#8217;s essay on &#8220;Modernization and  Historical Textbooks&#8221; on the Internet, I suspected that it was my moment  to be dismissed as the editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>But the contemptible level was beyond the  imagination of ordinary person.  At just after 5pm, the telephone calls  from various media friends around the country began to arrive.  They told  us that they have received the notice from the Central Propaganda Department,  the State Council and the Beijing News Office to &#8220;not report or comment  on the stoppage of Freezing Point,&#8221; &#8220;not attend any press conference  given by the editorial and reporting staff of Freezing Point,&#8221; &#8220;not  hype,&#8221; &#8220;maintain the distance&#8221; and so on.  Thereafter, the  overseas media reporters called non-stop to ask me to confirm the facts.   But until 7pm, nobody had notified me formally.  When the newspaper  leadership returned from the meeting the League Central, they went into a  meeting to discuss matters.  I was the last person to know about this  affair.  All the information proved that this was something certain  persons in the upper level of the party dared to risk public contempt and  plotted carefully to take this action.  This action had no legal or  constitutional basis, and seriously violated and trampled upon the party  constitution and political standards of the party.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee also &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000087&sid=aZXixMMxTWTo&refer=top_world_news\" target=\"_blank\">China Weekly Closed Because of Corruption Reports, Editor Says<\/a>&#8221; from Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freezing Point (\u00c2\u00dc\u221e\u00c1\u00c7\u03c0\u00d4\u00ba\u00e2editor Li Datong has written an open letter protesting the closure of his publication. ESWN has translated the letter: On January 24, 2006, Tuesday, which the deadline for the Freezing Point weekly magazine, the Beijing editorial staff of Freezing Point worked as usual to edit and proof-read the weekly edition scheduled for January [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[99,34,7,100,4202],"tags":[692,6365,273],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdt-highlights","category-human-rights","category-information-revolution","category-politics","category-translation","tag-china-youth-daily","tag-li-datong","tag-press-freedom","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A public protest against the illegal stoppage of the Freezing Point weekly magazine - Li Datong<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/01\/a-public-protest-against-the-illegal-stoppage-of-the-freezing-point-weekly-magazine-li-datong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A public protest against the illegal stoppage of the Freezing Point weekly magazine - Li Datong\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Freezing Point (\u00c2\u00dc\u221e\u00c1\u00c7\u03c0\u00d4\u00ba\u00e2editor Li Datong has written an open letter protesting the closure of his publication. 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