Tuesday, January 09, 2007

News at Eleven: [Qin Zhongfei] was released only after

several out-of-town newspaper articles related his fate and the central government in Beijing stepped in to halt the prosecution.

What happened to Qin, a mild bureaucrat in the county education department, was by any measure an abuse of power by local authorities here in the remote and wooded hills of central China.

from The Washington Post: As Grip of Censors Endures in China, A Satirical Poem Leads to Jail Time

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