"This decision increases our general concern about the situation of human rights in China."
Chinese journalist Gao Yu was sentenced to seven years in prison for disclosure of "state secrets abroad."
Associations of activists of Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters without Borders denounced the ruling, and the staging of his public confession (8 May 2014), as well as Raphael Droszewski, representative European Union in China:
"This decision increases our general concern about the situation of human rights in China, including that of journalists and bloggers who have been persecuted for expressing their opinions or exercise their right to information."
Former editor-in-chief assistant of Economics Weekly, she was arrested in late April 2014, in a wave of activists made the difference of human rights as we approach the 25th anniversary of the suppression of the Beijing Spring Tiananmen Square.
According to Human Rights Watch, Chinese justice reproached Gao Yu to have sent to his media, a website based in the United States, an internal document of the Chinese Communist Party, which advocated increased repression of democratic ideas, attempts at independence media and critics of the historical record of the CCP.
One of his lawyers said he planned to appeal the court decision, after the invalidation of his confession, "a forced confession."
A background in Chinese jails
This is not the first time that the investigative journalist of 71 years is detained by Beijing.
In 1989, she took part in the demonstrations in Tiananmen democracy, which earned him his first incarceration.
In 1993, she was sentenced to six years in prison for revealing "state secrets". She was released from prison in 1999, officially for medical reasons.
According to the Committee to Protect Chinese journalists, there would be 44 other journalists behind bars in China.
Gao Yu was notably the first recipient in 1997 of the World Prize for Press Freedom by UNESCO.
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