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China has shut down two Internet forums that criticized government media controls and condemned the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, a human rights group said.
The Southern Weekend Forum, run by the newspaper of the same name in Guangdong province, aired complaints over recent firings of two editors at the paper and orders for staff to attend political classes, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said Friday.
Reporters claimed the disciplinary moves were prompted by stories uncovering alleged government incompetence over an AIDS epidemic in central China and other official abuses.
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