Committee to Protect Journalists
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Honorary Chairman
Walter Cronkite
CBS News
Chairman
James C. Goodale
Former Vice-Chairman
The New York Times
Franz Allina
Laurie Becklund Los Angeles Times
Tom Brokaw, NBC News
Arthur L. Carter
The New York Observer
Josh Friedman
Columbia School of Journalism
Rea S. Hederman
The New York Review of Books
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour
Alberto Ibarguen
Newsday
Walter Isaacson
Time Magazine
Bill Kovach
The Nieman Foundation
Jane Kramer
The New Yorker
Anthony Lewis
The New York Times John R. MacArthur Harper's Magazine David Marash, ABC
Kati Marton Michael Massing Colman McCarthy
The Washington Post
Mary McGrory
The Washington Post
Judith Moses
Victor Navasky, The Nation
Aryeh Neier
Human Rights Watch
John Oakes
Renee Poussaint, ABC
Dith Pran
The New York Times
Dan Rather, CBS News Harrison Salisbury John Seigenthaler
The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center
Bernard Shaw
Cable News Network
George Watson, ABC News Thomas Winship
Center for Foreign Journalists
Affiliations are listed
for identification only
1992
Phone: 212/465-1004 Fax: 212/465-9568 Telex: 910 250 4794
e-mail: [email protected]
UPDATED LIST OF IMPRISONED JOURNALISTS IN CHINA --as of June 1993--
Liao Jia'an
Liao, a People's University graduate student and co-editor of an unofficial student journal titled Everyone, was arrested on June 8, 1992. In December 1992, he was reportedly charged with counterrevolution. He is being held at the Banbuqiao Detention Center in Beijing.
1992
Wang Shengli
Wang, a People's University graduate student and co-editor with Liao Jia'an of the unofficial student journal Everyone, was arrested on June 8, 1992, while visiting his wife in Hebei Province. In December 1992, he was reportedly charged with counterrevolution. He is being held at the Banbuqiao Detention Center in Beijing.
1992 Wang Jun
Wang, a reporter for People's Daily, was arrested in May 1992 for allegedly giving state secrets to the international media. Active in the press protests of 1989, Wang had been on disciplinary probation.
1992
Wu Shishen
Wu, a reporter for Xinhua news agency, was arrested in late 1992 for allegedly giving a Hong Kong journalist an advance copy of General Secretary Jiang Zemin's speech to the 14th Party Congress. Reports that Wu was sentenced to 15 years in prison could not be confirmed.
1990
Chen Yanbin
Chen, a former Qinghua University student, helped produced an unofficial magazine called Iron Currents about the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square. The government charged him with counterrevolutionary propaganda
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