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Alerts - China

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China

Microblog regulates, suspends users - again

A Weibo moderator posted a draft document outlining new guidelines for users of China's popular microblog platform, Sina Weibo.

China

Chen Guangcheng reporting censored, obstructed

Security officials' ongoing obstruction of foreign and domestic journalists covering the dissident is a worrying sign for supporters trying to secure his safety, CPJ said today.

China

China shuts out Al-Jazeera English in Beijing

Al-Jazeera English didn't comment on the decision, but the channel covers topics censored domestically by the Communist Party.

China

Government urged to protect blind human rights defender from extrajudicial violence

Chen Guangcheng and his family are at risk of violent reprisals after the activist's escape from unlawful detention, Human Rights Watch said.

China

Writer imprisoned for defamation amid rumor crackdown

Hu Lianyou accused two police officers in his native Dong'an county of beating him during interrogation, corruption, and other abuses in September 2010.

China

Boxun, U.S.-based news site, attacked amid Bo Xilai coverage

The crippling denial-of-service attacks forced Boxun to change its hosting company twice.

China

Journalist removed for voicing food safety fears

Zhao Pu, a host of CCTV's news bulletin program, was suspended from his position after forwarding a message using his Weibo microblog account which advised parents not to feed their children unsafe food products.

China

Internet crackdown on Bo Xilai rumors continues

Internet officials in China have deleted at least 210,000 online posts and shut down as many as 42 websites since mid-March for allegedly spreading rumors, the state-run news agency Xinhua.

China

Six netizens arrested, sixteen websites shut down

According to the Xinhua News Agency, sixteen websites were shut down by Chinese authorities following their reports claiming military vehicles entered Beijing in response to political conflict associated with the dismissal of the former Governor of Chongqing City.

China

Journalist and critic reportedly jailed

According to an online appeal, Gao Yingpu was sentenced in a secret trial in 2010 to a three-year prison term for criticising disgraced Chongqing city Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai.

China

Jailed human rights lawyer allowed visit by brother

RSF is pleased to receive news of Gao Zhisheng, who has been the victim of a series of mysterious disappearances orchestrated by the authorities since February 2009.

China

Censorship around party leader's ouster contributes to misinformation

The Chinese government has been blaming the international media, not its own lack of transparency and comprehensive censorship apparatus, for the burgeoning rumors around the sacking of Chongking party leader Bo Xilai.

China

RSF condemns prior censorship and increased Internet control

"The government is attacking freedom of information from all sides," RSF says, adding that "the new restrictions are the complete opposite of what the public wants and even Prime Minister Wen had indicated this."

China

CPC attempts to block publication of book

Du Guang's book, titled "Getting Back to Democracy," will be published on 15 March 2012 in Hong Kong, where the CPC's order has no authority.

China

New law sanctions covert detentions

China has approved revisions to its criminal code that grants police broad powers to hold journalists and others who discuss sensitive national issues without charge in secret detention for up to six months.

China

Legislature urged not to legalise incommunicado detentions

The legislation currently under consideration would empower the police to secretly detain government critics or anyone accused of "national security," "terrorism," or "bribery" crimes.

China

New detention law introduced; businessman harassed over blog entries

Chongqing police went to the Beijing apartment of property developer Zhang Mingyu, told him to return to the city of Chongqing and stop writing about the case of police chief Wang Lijun.

China / Taiwan

IFJ urges lifting of ban on Taiwan media group at Chinese regional forum

The Next Media Group was barred from entering China to cover the Boao Forum for Asia, scheduled to take place in China's southern province of Hainan at the end of March.

China

Online editor detained for reposting

Shang Laicheng was jailed for 10 days after reposting an unconfirmed report that two local officials had been caught with prostitutes.

China

IFJ urges government disclosure regarding attacks in Xinjiang province

According to official local news reports, 13 people were killed by nine attackers. However, further information has yet to be released by the local government, with only selected media outlets allowed to enter into the city of Kashi to report on the story.

China

IFJ urges free reporting of Wukan village elections

The authorities were urged to investigate the case of interference with journalists reporting on the elections in Wukan, and ensure that no similar interference interrupts the work of Mainland, Hong Kong and Overseas media reporting on the upcoming election in Wukan village.

China

International journalists attacked while covering land dispute

The attacks appear aimed at suppressing coverage of land-related protests in Panhe.

China

Senior newspaper staff fired for reporting inflation concerns

"Biancheng Evening Newspaper" reported that residents in Huaihua, Hunan province, were unhappy with inflation levels and the city's failure to host a celebration for the Lunar New Year.

China / Tibet (China)

IFJ urges authorities to uphold post-Olympic press freedom promises

Foreign journalists have reported being followed by unidentified people, being escorted by police back to the airport, being questioned for hours by police, being forced to delete images from their cameras and having their research and writing materials confiscated.

China / Tibet (China)

Authorities urged to refrain from using excessive force against protesters

Security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters on 23 and 24 January, killing at least two people and injuring several dozen more.

China

PEN protests charges against Zhu Yufu, insisting "poetry is not a crime"

The long-time democracy activist was charged with "inciting subversion" nearly three months after the prosecution withdrew his case from the courts for lack of evidence.

China

Cyber-dissident gets long jail term for "subversive" articles

Convicted of inciting subversion in a total of 36 articles posted on various websites, Chen Youcai was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and three years without civil rights after his release.

China

Chinese writer-dissident given nine-year prison sentence for online posts

Wei Chen, who was sentenced after a three-hour trial and deliberation, was arrested in February as part of a crackdown on dissidents and independent journalists.

China

Internet shut down and foreign journalists expelled from Wukan

Seven journalists from Hong Kong and Japan were forced to leave Wukan after they reported on village protests.

China

Government imposes media blackout on village protests

Authorities have censored all Chinese-language reporting on demonstrations in Lufeng protesting a death in police custody and political interference in local elections.

China

Three journalists assaulted

Wang Xiangqian was kicked by a State Bureau staff member in Nanyang city while querying the Bureau's public expenditure.

China

Investigative journalist forced to resign

Yang Haipeng was forced to resign for publicising an apparent injustice in proceedings of Shanghai's Minhang District People's Court, a week before his wife was sentenced to four years imprisonment for corruption.

China

IFJ concerned over threatened magazine closure

"Jinghua" magazine was ordered to stop all investigative reporting amid calls by senior government officials for stricter media monitoring.

China

Central government must prevent media harassment, says IFJ

The IFJ urges the Public Security Bureau of China to direct the police of Hengshui city to investigate the harassment of Cai Sheng and Wang Shaoyang.

China

Beijing court throws out appeal by jailed cyber-dissident Wang Lihong

Wang Lihong's trial is a worrying signal from the government, which is stepping up its control of the Internet, and in particular micro-blogging sites such as Sina Weibo.

China

Activist under house arrest regularly beaten by police; famous human rights lawyer still missing

Forced disappearance and mistreatment have become common in China; the authorities have now drafted legislation that would legalise the practice.

China

State secrecy laws used to intimidate journalists

After Ji Xuguang published a story about a civil servant charged with imprisoning six women, the journalist said he was threatened and interrogated by two unidentified men.

China

Authorities arrest South Korean journalists near North Korean border

Press visas are hard to get and, when journalists lack them, the authorities often use this as grounds for preventing them from working in this sensitive border area, said RSF.

China

TV journalist killed; IFJ worried by recent spate of attacks

Questions have been raised by Li Xiang's colleagues about a possible connection between his reporting and his death.

China

Microblog suspends accounts for allegedly spreading false rumours

The microblog's suspension of two accounts for a month may represent an attempt to rein in online news reporting, says CPJ.

China

Magazine president, editor punished for citing historian

"Nanfeng Chuang" magazine president Chen Zhong was removed from his post and editor Zhao Lingmin was suspended over an interview deemed critical of a Communist Party legend.

China

Authorities should allow open reporting of environmental threat, says CPJ

Microblog services have deleted images showing demonstrations in the city of Dalian, where citizens are calling for the closure of a chemical plant due to safety concerns.

China

Blogger Ran Yunfei released from prison, placed under "residential surveillance"

Other cyber-dissidents arrested at the same time as Ran Yunfei are still detained, facing the same charges of "inciting subversion of state authority."

China

IFJ demands reinstatement of journalist suspended over disaster reports

Wang Qinglei, producer of "24 Hours", was suspended after he questioned the Railway Ministry's speedy resolution of a high-speed rail disaster.

China

Journalist investigating child abduction targeted in hacking attack

"This attack on Zhao Hejuan's email account, which appears to be connected to her reporting, is deeply disturbing," said CPJ.

China

Authorities obstruct train disaster reporting

Propaganda authority directives to news outlets ordering them not to send reporters to the scene of the accident were leaked online.

China

IFJ urges greater transparency from Xinjiang authorities

Authorities were urged to release all information and allow journalists to report on the latest deadly clash between police officers and rioters.

China

"China Economic Times" dissolves investigative news department

A source, who did not wish to be named, told the IFJ that the decision was made by the "Times" publisher, Han Liyun, who wished to see less hard-hitting coverage in the pages of the newspaper.

China

Amid prison releases, journalist's sentence extended

A second prison sentence was handed down to freelance journalist Qi Chonghuai just days before the end of his term.

China

Journalists and Internet users face retribution

Online journalist and activist Wang Yuqin was punished with two weeks' detention after she appealed for medical treatment for her detained husband Yang Qiuyu, also an online journalist and activist.

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