matteo mohorovicich

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Zheng Yichun, another cyberdissident in jail

Just another one to add to the list of Reporters sans frontières: journalist or, as China seems often not to make any difference, cyberdissident Zheng Yichun, aged 48. He was charged with "subverting State power" by publishing articles. Where? Obviously on the same banned newspapers (Epoch Times; here you can find the English online version) and sites (just to tell one, boxun.com), all based abroad.
 The strangest thing (or not so strange, when we speak about censorship, free information repression and imprisonment in China) is that Zheng has been imprisoned on December 3. And only on March 25 (more than three months later!) Rsf wrote about it. Of course, it's not because of their negligence. Zheng's relatives, notified of his charge only on December 31, were warned not to talk about his imprisonment with press or human rights organizations, unless they wanted reprisals. They decided to stop keeping silence after a Yingkou daily newspaper reported the arrest on February 24.

To know more about Zheng's vicissitude, read Rsf.

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