New York Journos Call For Release Of Journalist Jailed In China

Tomorrow in New York and concurrently in nine other cities, an appeal for the release Ching Cheong, detained in China since last April for “spying on China’s government,” will be made by fellow journalists.

New York-area supporters include the New York Press Club and the Village Voice‘s Nat Hentoff, according to the release:


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 18, 2006

WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE FOR JAILED JOURNALIST

To appeal for the release of journalist Ching Cheong, Chief China correspondent of Singapore’s Straits Times.

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