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China to reprint weekly, shunts aside editors
Reuters
Thursday, February 16, 2006; 4:58 AM
BEIJING (Reuters) - The official China Youth Daily decided on Thursday to restart a provocative weekly section shut down last month, but shunted aside the top two editors who made it a standard-bearer for combative journalism.
Communist Party officials in charge of the China Youth Daily, the mouthpiece of the party's youth wing, bowed to an international outcry and decided to resume publication of the weekly Freezing Point from March 1, the weekly's editor Li Datong said by telephone.
But Li and Lu Yuegang, a prominent investigative reporter, will be removed as editor and deputy editor respectively of the weekly and shunted to the newspaper's news research office, Li said.
"This exterminates the soul of Freezing Point, leaving an empty shell," Li told Reuters.
Freezing Point was closed for publishing an essay by a Chinese historian, Yuan Weishi, criticizing what he said were long-standing nationalist distortions in Chinese history textbooks.
The first edition of the new Freezing Point will publish an essay attacking Yuan, Li said.
The weekly sometimes published investigative reports on corruption and abuses of official power, and commentaries critical of official thinking.
Since late last year, Chinese censors have dismissed editors of three occasionally adventurous newspapers, the Beijing News, Southern Metropolitan Daily and the Public Welfare Times. Propaganda authorities have also increased surveillance and control of the Internet.
Analysts said these latest acts were part of the party's long-running policies to keep news under tight control, even as newspapers and the Internet have mushroomed. And many said no relaxation was in sight.
Li Rui, a former secretary to Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, and a dozen other senior Chinese scholars and ex-officials have denounced the shutdown of Freezing Point in a spreading battle over censorship.
They said the January 24 closure of Freezing Point was an "historic incident" in a struggle between Communist Party controls and calls for media freedom.