Chinese Times Researcher To Be Released
A researcher for the New York Times, Zhao Yan, who spent three years in a Chinese prison due to a widely-criticized fraud conviction, is scheduled to be released from jail Saturday.
Zhao was jailed after a closed-door trial in Beijing over a Times story correctly predicting Jiang Zemin‘s retirement. Zhao was also charged with revealing state secrets in a move that was widely interpeted as an attempt to cow the Times‘ Beijing bureau. A prominent investigative journalist in his own right, Zhao was also a reporter for the Beijing-based publication Zhongguo Gaige (China Reform).
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