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Chinese journalist dies after police beating
Beijing (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 A Chinese journalist has died after being beaten by a local police chief in southwest China, one of his colleagues and a human rights group said Tuesday. Xiao Guopeng, an editor for Guizhou province's Anshun Daily newspaper, was punched and knocked to the ground by police official Pan Dengfeng, an editor with the paper told AFP by phone. The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy also reported on the death on July 18 and said it may have been linked to Xiao's writing of an article that was critical of local police. "We do not rule out that the beating was related to this," the center said in a statement. The center said Pan began beating Xiao in public, with the policeman ignoring the calls of an angry crowd to stop. Xiao, 39, died at a local hospital from a brain hemorrhage, according to the center. The editor at the paper, who declined to be named, said the case was under criminal investigation. "The suspect, Pan Dengfeng, has been formally arrested. This is a criminal case. It is now under judicial procedure," he said. A police officer contacted by AFP at Anshun city's Xinchang township police station confirmed Pan was no longer working there but refused to comment further. As China's journalists increasingly test boundaries of state-controlled media, they are coming under attack by the government as well as local officials intent on silencing reports about corruption and abuse of power. Reports of journalists being jailed, sacked, demoted or beaten occur almost weekly in China. In one recent example, Li Yuanlong, another journalist from Guizhou, was on July 13 jailed for two years on subversion charges following his reports on the plight of marginalized farmers and laid-off workers. Reporters Without Borders ranks China 159th out of 167 countries in its global press freedom index. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links China News from SinoDaily.com
China warns US not to sell fighter jets to Taiwan
Beijing (AFP) Jul 22, 2006 Beijing has warned Washington not to proceed with a reported deal to sell fighter jets to Taiwan, indicating it would impact on regional security and harm Sino-US relations, state media said on Friday. |
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