China - Another arrest in growing crackdown on 64Tianwang website reporters

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns this week's arbitrary arrest of Yang Dongying, the latest victim of the Chinese government's systematic persecution of citizen-journalists working for 64Tianwang (64Skynet), a news website run by the cyber-dissident Huang Qi. Arrested in the eastern province of Zhejiang on 24 June, Yang Dongying has been charged with “picking a quarrel and making trouble” because she criticized the methods used by the Zhejiang police to extract a confession from her (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - vendredi 26 juin 2015