BEIJING: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) late on Tuesday condemned the detention of two independent Chinese journalists, one a prominent investigative reporter, after they published a story alleging corruption by a local official in southwestern China.
The Paris-headquartered advocacy group said journalists Wu Yingjiao and Liu Hu, who gained national recognition more than a decade ago for uncovering graft among high-profile figures, were detained on Sunday in China’s Sichuan province.
Police in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan, said in a statement on Monday they were investigating a 50-year-old man surnamed Liu, a 34-year-old man surnamed Wu and others on suspicion of “making false accusations” and “illegal business operations.”