Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Chinese President Xi Jinping to pardon journalist Huang Qi, a two-time winner of the RSF award, sentenced today to 12 years in prison despite very serious health problems.
The Mianyang Intermediate People’s Court (Sichuan) on Monday (July 29th) sentenced Chinese investigative journalist Huang Qi , 56, to 12 years in jail for “revealing state secrets” and “revealing secrets”. State Abroad “ , after two years of pre-trial detention and an in camera trial on 14 January. The journalist, winner of the 2004 RSF Press Freedom Prize and founder of the human rights news site 64 Tianwang , 2016 RSF Prize , is in fact punished for denouncing human rights violations in his articles. guilty of some Chinese officials.
This sentence is equivalent to a death sentence given the catastrophic healthof Huang Qi, who has already spent more than ten years of his life in detention,” said Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders ( RSF), which calls on President Xi Jinping to “show humanity by exercising his right of pardon, so that the journalist is released before it is too late.”
In a statement issued on 20 December 2018 by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) following a request by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), four human rights experts at the UN also called for the immediate release of the journalist, pointing out that his state of health risked “continuing to deteriorate to a fatal point” if he remained in detention because of ill-treatment and lack of care.
In 2017, Nobel Peace Prize and RSF Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and dissident blogger Yang Tongyan both died of untreated cancer while in prison, and at least ten prisoner journalists are likely to suffer the same fate. .
China holds more than 114 journalists in its jails and ranks 177th out of 180 in the 2019 RSF World Press Freedom Index.
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