China’s anti-corruption agency urged to free newly detained journalist

NewsReporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on China’s new anti-corruption agency to release the independent journalist Chen Jieren and five close relatives and assistants, who have been held incommunicado for the past two weeks. A critic of abuses by Chinese Communist Party officials, Chen is accused of extortion.Chen was arrested at his home in Shaoyang, in the southern province of Hunan, some time between 4 and 6 July in an investigation by the State Supervisory Commission, the central anti-corruption age

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