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China denies access to Hong Kong magazine founder, a U.S. citizen: U.S.
Source: Reuters
World | Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:06pm EDT
China denies access to Hong Kong magazine founder, a U.S. citizen: U.S.
The U.S. State Department confirmed on Wednesday that U.S. citizen James Wang has been imprisoned in China and that American diplomats have been denied permission to meet with him since he was arrested nearly 14 months ago.
Wang was one of two men who held senior positions on Hong Kong political magazines who were sentenced to prison terms on Tuesday on charges of illegal business operations, bribery and bid rigging, his lawyer has said.
Wang, 63, and Guo Zhongxiao, 41, were sentenced after five Hong Kong booksellers from a shop that specialized in gossipy books about China's leaders disappeared and later appeared in custody in mainland China. The men worked for the political magazines New-Way Monthly and Multiple Face. Wang was a magazine founder and Guo a chief editor.
The case has raised concern about free speech in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. It has greater freedoms and separate laws from the mainland under a "one country, two systems" framework agreed when Britain handed back its former colony in 1997.
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China denies access to Hong Kong magazine founder, a U.S. citizen: U.S.
The U.S. State Department confirmed on Wednesday that U.S. citizen James Wang has been imprisoned in China and that American diplomats have been denied permission to meet with him since he was arrested nearly 14 months ago.
Wang was one of two men who held senior positions on Hong Kong political magazines who were sentenced to prison terms on Tuesday on charges of illegal business operations, bribery and bid rigging, his lawyer has said.
Wang, 63, and Guo Zhongxiao, 41, were sentenced after five Hong Kong booksellers from a shop that specialized in gossipy books about China's leaders disappeared and later appeared in custody in mainland China. The men worked for the political magazines New-Way Monthly and Multiple Face. Wang was a magazine founder and Guo a chief editor.
The case has raised concern about free speech in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China. It has greater freedoms and separate laws from the mainland under a "one country, two systems" framework agreed when Britain handed back its former colony in 1997.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-magazine-china-usa-idUSKCN1072KB
