Friday, September 21, 2007
China Releases New York Times Journalist After Three Years in Prison
China has released a New York Times journalist, whom it jailed three years ago after a very controversial trial that was protested around the world. Zhao Yan was charged both with fraud and with revealing state secrets. The national secrecy charges were dismissed, but he was convicted of the fraud charges. Mr. Zhao still works for the Times. Here's more from MSNNews.com.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2007/09/china-to-releas.html