Belgian TV journalist and his crew assaulted while reporting on Aids

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Reporters Without Borders today voiced dismay after Belgian journalist, Tom Van de Weghe, and his team from Flemish public television VRT were attacked and robbed by men recruited by the authorities in Henan province, central China as they reported on Aids in China.

Beijing police prevent European parliamentarian from visiting jailed dissident's wife

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Reporters Without Borders deplores the behaviour of the Chinese police in preventing European parliament member Helga Trüpel from visiting Zeng Jinyan, the wife of jailed dissident Hu Jia, in her Beijing apartment building today. Foreign journalists who wanted to visit Zeng were also turned back.

Political essayist gets three years in prison for three articles posted online

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Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of essayist Chen Daojun, who was sentenced today by a people’s court in Chengdu, in the western province of Sichuan, to three years in prison and three years’ loss of political rights for “inciting subversion of state authority” in three articles posted online.

“Chen Daojun is guilty only of expressing his views on Chinese politics,” Reporters Without Borders said. “He is the second cyber-dissident to be convicted this year by a Chengdu court, following Huang Qi, who was arrested on 10 June because of his online articles criticising the management of humanitarian aid after the 12 May earthquake in Sichuan. By jailing Internet users in this fashion, the authorities have once again shown they are unable to handle criticism.”


Well-known dissident blogger arrested for “inciting subversion”

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Reporters Without Borders condemns today’s arrest of blogger Guo Quan at his home in Nanjing (江苏省南京市), the capital of the central province of Jiangsu, for posting blog entries deemed to be “too radical”. He is currently being held in a Nanjing police station on a charge of “inciting subversion of state authority.” The police took his computer when they arrested him.

Cyber-dissident Liu Xianbin freed after nine years in prison

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Reporters Without Borders welcomes today’s release of writer and cyber-dissident Liu Xianbin, who was sentenced by a people’s court in the central province of Sichuan in August 1999 to 13 years in prison and three years of loss of civil rights on a charge of “inciting subversion of state authority.”