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January 9, 2008

Move to arrest journalist sparks backlash in China

That's the headline of this interesting story from the Washington Post, which begins:

Government officials from a county in northeastern China's Liaoning province were not pleased by a magazine story criticizing their local Communist Party leader. So they traveled nearly 500 miles to Beijing seeking to arrest the author.

January 9, 2008 in News - Chinese Law | Permalink

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