Chinese paper's executives punished for quoting historian's opinion

A further example of the Chinese authorities clamping down on press freedom... a magazine's president has been demoted and its editor has been suspended.

Chen Zhong, president of the Guangzhou-based bi-weekly Nanfeng Chuang (Window on the South), was removed from his post, though not dismissed, and editor Zhao Lingmin was suspended.

They were punished for publishing an interview with a Taiwanese historian, Tang Chi-hua, that was critical of Sun Yat-sen, a revolutionary leader in the early 20th century.

"Punishing Chen Zhong and Zhao Lingmin for quoting a historian is absurd and a sign of the tightening restrictions on professional reporters across China this year," said Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) deputy director Robert Mahoney.

"Some of China's best journalists are falling victim to the Communist party's sustained efforts to stamp out views it fears."...