China - RWB calls for immediate and unconditional release of journalist Sun Lin

Reporters without borders

看中文 Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of Sun Lin, a journalist for the foreign-based Mandarin-language news website Boxun, who was arrested on 16 April. Sun, better known by the pen name Jie Mu, was held under administrative detention for distributing video footage of a protest over the expulsion of a dissident's daughter from school. He was originally supposed to be held for 10 days but his detention may be extended until 30 April and reclassified as criminal custody. (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - vendredi 26 avril 2013