A one-year report card from PEN (the pdf is here) noted that seven months ago, the freedom of expression group called on the Chinese government to:
• release all writers and journalists currently imprisoned and stop detaining, harassing, and
censoring writers and journalists in China;
• end Internet censorship and reform laws used to imprison writers and journalists and
suppress freedom of expression; and
• abide by its pledge that “there will be no restrictions on media reporting and movement
of journalists up to and including the Olympic Games.”
Said PEN:
“Seven months later, we are unable to report significant improvements in any of these areas.
“What we have witnessed instead has been a grinding and relentless campaign to jail or silence
prominent dissident voices….”
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