Hu Jia

NOT IN OLD HONG KONG Newsday (New York, NY) November 24, 2002 Copyright 2002 Newsday, Inc. By A. Lin Neumann. In many ways Hong Kong looks as good as ever. The soaring Bank of China building and its many gleaming neighbors in Central, the downtown business hub, still have the air of cocky optimism that…

There were 139 journalists in prison around the world at the end of 2002 who were jailed for practicing their profession. The number is up significantly from the previous year, when 118 journalists were in jail. An analysis of the reasons behind this increase is contained in the introduction.At the beginning of 2003, CPJ sent…

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemns the recent arrest of Internet essayist Chen Shaowen. Chen was arrested on suspicion of “using the Internet to subvert state power,” according to a report in the official Hunan Daily.

In the months following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, journalists around the world confronted an unprecedented press freedom crisis.

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is very concerned by the Chinese government’s apparent blocking of domestic access to the Google Internet search engine. Such censorship directly affects China-based journalists’ ability to conduct research and impedes citizens’ access to news that is unavailable in China’s tightly controlled domestic media.

August 28, 2002 His Excellency Jiang Zemin President, People’s Republic of China C/o Embassy of the People’s Republic of China 2300 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20008 Via facsimile: (202) 588-0032 Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned about the safety of Web publisher Wan Yanhai, who has been missing in…

August 28, 2002 His Excellency Jiang Zemin President, People’s Republic of China C/o Embassy of the People’s Republic of China 2300 Connecticut Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20008 Via facsimile: (202) 588-0032 Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is gravely concerned about the safety of Web publisher Wan Yanhai, who has been missing in…

August 14, 2002, New York—Authorities in Vietnam will soon bring Internet essayist Le Chi Quang, 32, to trial on national security charges, according to CPJ sources. Quang has been in prison since February 21, 2002, when he was arrested for writing articles that criticized Vietnam’s border agreements with China. Officials from the Prosecutor’s Office informed…

Remarks Presented Before the Congressional-Executive Committee on China By Kavita Menon June 24, 2002 Thank you for inviting the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) to participate in this round-table discussion about media freedom in China. CPJ has been monitoring press freedom conditions in China, and around the world, for more than 20 years. The organization…

Your Excellency: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is outraged by the continued detention of Internet publisher Huang Qi, who was arrested on June 3, 2000, and today completes two years in prison. Although Huang was secretly tried on August 14, 2001, authorities have not yet delivered a verdict in his case. In October 1998, Huang Qi and his wife, Zeng Li, launched Tianwang Web site (www.6-4tianwang.com), a missing-persons search service based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.