RSF Calls for Release of Chinese Journalist Covering Protests in Hong Kong

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling for the release of Chinese freelance journalist Huang Xueqin, arrested on October 17 in Guangzhou after covering protests in Hong Kong.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling for the immediate release of Chinese freelance journalist Huang Xueqin , also known as Sophia Huang, who covered pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong last summer and the #MeToo movement in China in 2018. Huang was arrested on October 17 in his home province of Guangdong on charges of “stirring up quarrels and causing unrest” , a vague motive often used by the regime against journalists that can be worth up to ten years. from prison.

Huang Xueqin had the courage to investigate issues of society of interest to the Chinese public and should never have been worried ,” said Cédric Alviani, Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) director of East Asia. , which calls for ” his immediate release and that of all other journalists detained in China . “

Huang Xueqin, 30, originally planned to return to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to pursue a Master of Laws, but was confiscated from his travel documents in August.

China is the world’s largest prison for journalists with at least 120 inmates and ranks 177th out of 180 countries and territories in the 2019 RSF World Press Freedom Index .

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