{"id":46613,"date":"2015-04-16T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46613 "},"modified":"2015-04-16T23:34:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T23:34:00","slug":"46613-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46613","title":{"rendered":"China jails journalist Gao Yu over \\’state secrets\\’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gao Yu, seen here in a file image taken in Hong Kong on 5 February 2007<\/div>
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Authorities say Gao Yu leaked a sensitive document that was then widely reposted abroad<\/div>
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China has jailed a top journalist for seven years for leaking a confidential paper to a foreign website.<\/div>
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Gao Yu, 71, had “illegally provided state secrets to foreigners”, the court in Beijing said.<\/div>
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China has not confirmed which document the case relates to, but it is thought to be a Communist Party strategy paper known as “Document No 9”.<\/div>
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This is said to advocate economic reform while restricting democracy, civil society and freedom of the press.<\/div>
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Amnesty International called the sentence “an affront to justice”.<\/div>
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Gao was “the victim of vaguely worded and arbitrary state-secret laws that are used against activists as part of the authorities’ attack on freedom of expression”, said William Nee, China researcher at the rights group.<\/div>
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Shang Baojun, one of her lawyers, said they were “very disappointed” with the verdict and would appeal.<\/div>
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Gao was detained in April 2014. Weeks later, state television network CCTV aired a video of Gao, her face blurred, admitting she made a “big mistake”.<\/div>
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Gao’s lawyers said she made the statement after police threatened her son. She was then put on trial in November.<\/div>
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The highly-respected journalist, who has written for media in Hong Kong and elsewhere, has already been imprisoned in the 1990s.<\/div>
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She was convicted of sending party documents, including a speech by then-President Jiang Zemin, to a Hong Kong newspaper.<\/div>
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