In a case that has been condemned by human rights defenders, a Beijing court has upheld the conviction of the veteran Chinese journalist Gao Yu for “leaking state secrets” but released her on medical parole. The official Xinhua news agency reported that the People’s Third Intermediate Court in Beijing had granted the parole based on a medical report that said Ms Gao (71), who won the Unesco/ Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize in 1997,...
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