Hey, the “Globe gets action, too!
"Chinese police apologize to journalists" by Associated Press | September 22, 2010
BEIJING — Police apologized to journalists at a hard-driving Chinese news magazine yesterday after officers earlier tried to pressure them into revealing sources for an article about the detention of people seeking government redress over various grievances.
Good thing the AmeriKan government never does things like that.
Top editors and managers at the respected Caijing magazine had refused to give in to demands issued Monday that were accompanied by threats of unspecified repercussions against the magazine for publishing the Sept. 13 article, said lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who is a legal adviser to the publication.
Editors were told the piece “undermined stability and unity,’’ Pu said....
For such an authoritarian and oppressive government they sure do worry a lot about what their people think and do.
Meanwhile, here in "free" AmeriKa the government doesn't give a crap how we feel.
Phones in the public relations and editorial departments at Caijing rang unanswered yesterday. Beijing police did not respond to a request for comment.
Caijing is a financial news magazine that has pushed boundaries with China’s censors and chased stories that embarrassed the government.
Good thing AmeriKa's mouthpiece media would never do such a thing.
You know, if an oil spill or something were to occur.
The expose had described the lucrative business of illegally apprehending citizens who try to file complaints with the central government.
You know, like the BP and HOMELAND SECURITY THUGS chasing citizens away from the Gulf of Mexico and preventing them from digging in the sand!
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And then the GOVERNMENT RESPONDED to the REPORT?
BEIJING — Police are investigating a Beijing security company linked to the unauthorized but lucrative practice of holding citizens in so-called black jails, or illegal detention centers, state media reported yesterday....
Yeah, HIDDEN JAILS seem to be ALL the RAGE these days!
Also see: The Illegal Immigrant Imprisonment Industry
Yeah, $eem$ to be some dollar$ in it everywhere!
Beijing-based Anyuanding Security and Prevention Technical Support Service was profiled in an expose this month by the Chinese financial magazine Caijing, which described the practice of illegally locking up citizens to prevent them from filing formal complaints with the central government. The magazine said the company reportedly earned $3.1 million in revenue in 2008.
Think war-profiteers like Blackwater, Americans. That's what this is.
Anyuanding agents dressed as police officers would grab petitioners off the streets of Beijing and other cities and forcibly hold them in hotels or rented houses, often physically mistreating them as well, the magazine said.
They mean TORTURE!
The company charged local and provincial governments up to $45 per person per day for “controlling, forcing, and escorting petitioners’’ to the black jail until they could be escorted back by police from their hometown, according to a report by Southern Metropolis Daily.
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