BEIJING: A Chinese newspaper has published a front-page call for police to free a journalist detained after reporting “financial problems” at a partly state-owned company, in a rare example of media defying authorities.
The New Express tabloid, based in Guangzhou in the southern province of Guangdong, carried the full-page editorial under the headline “Please release our man” in oversized stark black print yesterday.
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