China: Dissident editor sacked
China has once again put dissident journalists on notice by sacking Zhang Hong, the deputy editor in chief of Beijing based weekly, Economic Observer’s Internet edition.
He incurred the wrath of the authorities by criticising in a recent editorial the household registration system, which restricts where people can live.
His editorial said present policy forces the Chinese to live in their home town to be eligible to government aid.
‘We believe in people born to be free and people possessing the right to migrate freely’, Zhang wrote in his editorial which disappeared from the Internet within hours but by then it was picked up by 13 big-city newspapers, financial publications and regional dailies.
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