Journalist's sentence draws fire - CN

A New York-based rights group yesterday blasted as a "gross injustice" a 10-year term meted out to a Chinese journalist for releasing information related to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre.

Shi Tao (??), 37, received his sentence late last month after a procedure that did not reflect well on the reign of President Hu Jintao (???), Human Rights in China said in a statement.

"Shi Tao's case has raised widespread concern inside and outside of China as a classic example of the Hu Jintao regimes relentless suppression of free speech and free press," said Liu Qing (??), president of the group.

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Just because he told the truth doesn't mean anything. In Bush's world everyone is a terrorist! Murder by Example!

8-12 years longer of the reich, and we will be on par with their woes. hmph, minds no longer matter.

in spite of the western powers trying to exploit her up until WWII. Democracy does not happen overnight, and unless you have been to China to see how it has evolved from when relations were opened with the U.S. in the 70's to the present, I feel one cannot appreciate how much progress has been made.

Today the communist party is in China is NOT what it was during the cultural revolution, and it was never like the Soviet form of Communism

why during the Japanese invasion of China in WWII did Chiang decide that it was more important to fight the communists than Japan?

How many Chinese were slaughtered by the Japanese because Chiang's arrogance decided that uniting with Mao against the Japanese was NOT in his interest.

Things are not as simple in China as you portray. It is not black and white. Slowly CHina has emerged from the terrible days of the cultural revolution, but much of China's turbulance was a direct result of the Western powers trying to exploit her, and the corruption of its leaders, including both Chiang and Mao.