hundred journalists protested against the party purges
hundred journalists from one of China's most progressive newspapers, the "Beijing News (Xin Jing Bao), showed a strike Beijing (in order not to be in the office but all of them go together to sing at a karaoke) for ROTEST dismissal of its director and two other deputy directors.
director Yang Bin and his two colleagues (Sun Xuedong and Li duoyu) were purged by censors of the Communist Party because 'the "Beijing News" had published some articles embarrassing to the government. In June 2005 he reported that a group of gunmen had killed six residents of the city of Dingzhou (north, in Hebei Province near Beijing) who were protesting against the forced expropriation by the government wanted to build a power plant. Taken up by other media, the news has prompted the government to announce the return of land to the peasants.
Recently newspapers as the "Beijing News" published stories to attract new readers and advertising revenue, clashing with the censors has always strictly control all media. This time the strike as an unusual practice in China has shown the growing tension between the ruling Communist Party and publishers. Two days ago, Sun Xuedong and Li duoyu have re-assigned a new role in "Beijign News. Yan Bin has accepted a position in Shenzhen (a city 'in South China near Hong Kong Canto below) as the director www.sina.com
until today the news about the strike still being controlled by censors Communist Party is not then in the media in mainland China, but are published in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan.
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