China urged to free leading journalist Gao Yu and drop charges

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of Deutsche Welle China correspondent Gao Yu, whose trial on a charge of disclosing state secrets began last November. The authorities have announced that a verdict will finally be issued tomorrow morning. A well-known freelance journalist who won the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 1997, Gao has been held since 24 April 2014. She is facing up to ten years in prison for sending Deutsche Welle an internal Communist Party (...)

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