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2006-01-18 HKT 16:43
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Two journalists in eastern
China have been jailed for ten
and six years for publishing
an unauthorised magazine that
exposed local land disputes.
Court officials in Zhejiang
province said the men were
also charged with illegal
business operations and fraud.
The Beijing Times says the
magazine, "New China Youth",
was registered in Hong Kong in
2002 but this had no validity
on the mainland. Last month, a
Xinhua news agency report said
the journalists had threatened
the local government that they
would publish stories if the
peasants' demands were not met.
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