Growing Concerns Over Detention of Journalists and Publishers in China

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Growing Concerns Over Detention of Journalists and Publishers in China
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Dong Yuyu, a senior editor at Guangming Daily, a leading Communist Party newspaper, has been accused of espionage by Chinese authorities over his interactions with diplomatic and academic contacts from Japan and the U.S. He was taken into custody in February last year along with a Japanese diplomat whom he was meeting at a restaurant in central Beijing. Dong's family denies the charges.

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