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Support Southern Weekend Against Censorship in China

Written byOiwan Lam
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Posted 8 January 2013 12 years ago

The slogan said: defend professional journalist practice; management of Southern Weekend, do not disappoint your readers. Screen capture from the video.

Around 1000 Guangzhou citizens gathered outside Southern Weekend office building to express their support for the newspaper against the Propaganda Department's brutal censorship of the New Year Greeting editorial. Below is a youtube video uploaded by Chen Ye showing the protest scene. (via acopy.net)

http://youtu.be/OLKxagou7Kk

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