China Youth Daily, 2009-05-25
At the “'Defamation of the Government' and Citizens' Right to Supervision Symposium” held in Beijing, law professors, journalists and practicing lawyers expressed concern over recent cases of local authorities detaining and prosecuting journalists on suspicion of “criminal defamation” and “bribe taking.” Too often, the experts in attendance agreed, such charges were a form of retaliation against and suppression of the “supervisory role of public opinion.” The legal basis of such charges are also questionable, argued two lawyers with the China Youth University for Political Sciences, saying that the police custom of identifying reporters as “state functionaries” and their activities as “official business” does not correspond to the current realities of the Chinese media.
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