Who is enforcing this law?
Another situation in China, reported by The Guardian (UK), raises more questions about the rule of law there. Note the last quoted paragraph.China bans influential NGO newsletter
"Chinese authorities have shut down an influential publication at the heart of the country's budding civic society movement, raising fresh concerns about media freedoms in the run up to the Olympic Games.
"China Development Brief has been ordered to cease publication pending the results of an investigation into its activities."Beijing officials told Nick Young, the British founder of the organisation, that he was suspected of conducting "unauthorised surveys"...
"The 13-year-old publication is in a unique position in China. It is the only newsletter specialising in the work of foreign and domestic nongovernmental organisations in the world's most populous country...
"The publication's role as a bridge between NGOs in China and the outside world may have raised the suspicions of the communist government, which clamps down hard on any group that is in a position to link independent voices..."
"[Mr. Young] was accused of violating the 1983 Statistics Law, which requires advance permission for any survey not conducted by the government and authorised agencies.
"None of the Beijing government agencies he named said they knew anything about the case..." [Emphasis added]
Labels: China, civil society, rule-of-law
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:42 AM
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