On August 31, 2005, Jim Yardley contributed the story for New York
Times on its former employee, Zhao Yan, who was held for more than 11
months by China. Read the article in
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/31/international/asia/31secret.html
An outline of the article:
* Zhao Yan was charged that he leaked state secrets to
his employer, The New York Times.
* The accusation deprives a defendant in China of almost
all rights. Mr. Zhao still has not had a court hearing.
No public explanation has been given for his arrest.
He is forbidden to see his family. His lawyer's
efforts to post bail were denied by the Ministry of
State Security, the agency that arrested him.
* A confidential State Security re****t and interviews
confirm that Mr. Zhao was the focus of a high-level
investigation begun in response to an article in The
Times on Sept. 7. The article, citing two anonymous
sources, stated that Jiang Zemin, the former president
and Communist Party chief, had unexpectedly offered to
resign his last leader****p position.
* The key evidence cited is a photocopy of a note Mr.
Zhao wrote. The original note remains in the Beijing
office of The Times, raising questions about whether
state security agents induced a Chinese employee of
the office to provide a copy without authorization or
conducted a search without permission. In either
case, under Chinese law, the photocopy would be
inadmissible as evidence.
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