Citizen journalist beaten to death in China

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 11 January 2008 at 15:02
Tags: Journalism

A blogger in China was beaten to death on while filming a confrontation between villagers and the authorities
Wei Wenhua, a 41-year-old construction company executive, was filming a protest Wanba, a village on the outskirts of Tianmen in Hubei on his mobile phone when officials turned on him and beat him, the Guardian reports.
According to CNN Chinese authorities [...]

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