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| Subject: China Slave Pen: Veteran journalist Gao Yu sentenced to 7 years Fri Apr 17, 2015 1:57 am | |
| BEIJING (AP) — A Beijing court sentenced a veteran Chinese journalist to seven years in prison Friday after convicting her of leaking a document detailing the Communist Party leadership's resolve to aggressively target civil society and press freedom as a threat to its monopoly on power.
The sentence against Gao Yu, 71, comes amid a widening clampdown on free speech that highlights the gap between China's vision of rule of law and Western notions of civil liberties and judicial fairness. The document Gao was convicted of leaking, deemed a state secret, underpins the clampdown under the 2 ½-year-old administration of Communist Party leader Xi Jinping.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/veteran-chinese-journalist-gao-yu-sentenced-7-years |
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| Subject: Re: China Slave Pen: Veteran journalist Gao Yu sentenced to 7 years Fri Apr 17, 2015 3:03 am | |
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