One India
05/12/2010
In yet another case of Chinese authorities muzzling the media, an intrepid Chinese editor has been sacked after his paper ran a story exposing the careless handling of health vaccines that may have caused the deaths and serious illnesses of children in Shanxi Province.
Bao Yuehang, the chief-editor of the China Economic Times that employs four hundred people and is controlled by the State Council’s Development Research Centre, was also the paper’s publisher and Communist Party secretary.
The report caused a furore in China within hours of its release with the authorities trashing it as false, and was downplayed on websites following orders from the state’s Propoganda Department.
However, Yuehang has stood firmly behind the story and its writer.