China is the world's biggest jailer of journalists. At least 30 journalists and 50 cyber reporters are in prison. And that is only those we know about. The general view is that the real figure is much higher, but since families and friends of imprisoned journalists are threatened into silence, we do not always have information on other cases. WAN is continuously updating its list of imprisoned Chinese journalists and cyber reporters. Here is information about thirteen of them:

1.    Hua Di, freelance journalist
 

2.    Lü Gengsong, freelance journalist
 

3.    Huang Jinqiu, freelance journalist 
 

4.    Chen Renjie, publisher

5.    Guo Qizhen, freelance journalist
 

6.    Shi Tao, journalist


7.    Yue Tianxiang, publisher

 
8.    Fan Yingshang, publisher

 
9.    Li Yuanlong, journalist

 
10.    Lin Youping, publisher

11.   Wu Zhengyou, publisher


12.   Zhu Wanxiang, publisher

All information found in these case studies has been drawn from independent news sources and press freedom monitoring bodies and is up to date as of November 2007.

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