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China: A Free Speech Court Case

Friday, September 14th, 2007 @ 02:39 UTC

by Oiwan Lam

Countries:: China
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Internet & Telecoms, Law
Languages:: Chinese

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hi:: चीन: मुक्त वाणी का अदालती मामला...

Liu Xiao Yuan, a lawyer, blogs about his lawsuit against a blog hosting company, sohu.com, for deleting his posts. The court dismissed his lawsuit on Sept 12 and he called up several local mainstream media for news briefing, but none of the newspapers released the news (zh).

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