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A former top-ranked Chinese official and a journalist were charged with leaking state secrets, a problematic legal term under the Chinese regime.
Veteran journalist and Communist Party critic Gao Yu is given a 7-year jail term for leaking state secrets.
Chinese journalist Gao Yu, recently arrested, was brought onto state television to confess to leaking state secrets on May 8.
A veteran Chinese journalist has called into question the source of information used for stories written by Bloomberg News about the wealth of the family of the current head of the Chinese Communist Party.
China’s communist regime officially banned mainland media from using foreign reports in the latest censorship of the country’s press.
