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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Thursday called on Chinese authorities to immediately release veteran journalist Dong Yuyu after the Beijing High Court upheld his seven-year prison sentence for espionage. CPJ said the court affirmed the conviction without providing reasons, and that the appeal decision is final under China’s system. “Speaking with diplomats is routine work for journalists, not espionage,” CPJ Asia-Pacific Director Beh Lih Yi said, urging China to free Dong and allow him to reunite with his family.
Dong’s son told CPJ that the court notified them of its ruling, which rejected his appeal and left the 63-year-old’s conviction in place. Dong’s son has also called on Japanese authorities in Washington to assist, emphasizing that his father did not commit espionage during his meetings with diplomats. He expressed concern that prison officials are depriving Dong Yuyu of adequate food and nutrition, underscoring the prison’s reputation for lack of sunlight.
Chinese authorities arrested Dong Yuyu in February 2022 while he was having lunch with a Japanese diplomat in Beijing. He was then taken to an undisclosed detention facility, where he has been held ever since. In November 2024, the Beijing Number 2 Intermediate People’s Court convicted him of espionage and sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment. The court declined to provide a copy of the judgment to his lawyer or his family and did not publish the decision online. Before his arrest, Dong worked as a journalist and editor at the Guangming Daily, a Chinese Communist Party–run newspaper.
CPJ noted that Dong has been recognized for writing that advocates reform in China, including support for constitutionalism and the rule of law, and that he previously held a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. CPJ plans to honor him with a 2025 International Press Freedom Award later this month. China remains the world’s leading jailer of journalists, according to CPJ’s research.
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Dong’s son told CPJ that the court notified them of its ruling, which rejected his appeal and left the 63-year-old’s conviction in place. Dong’s son has also called on Japanese authorities in Washington to assist, emphasizing that his father did not commit espionage during his meetings with diplomats. He expressed concern that prison officials are depriving Dong Yuyu of adequate food and nutrition, underscoring the prison’s reputation for lack of sunlight.
Chinese authorities arrested Dong Yuyu in February 2022 while he was having lunch with a Japanese diplomat in Beijing. He was then taken to an undisclosed detention facility, where he has been held ever since. In November 2024, the Beijing Number 2 Intermediate People’s Court convicted him of espionage and sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment. The court declined to provide a copy of the judgment to his lawyer or his family and did not publish the decision online. Before his arrest, Dong worked as a journalist and editor at the Guangming Daily, a Chinese Communist Party–run newspaper.
CPJ noted that Dong has been recognized for writing that advocates reform in China, including support for constitutionalism and the rule of law, and that he previously held a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. CPJ plans to honor him with a 2025 International Press Freedom Award later this month. China remains the world’s leading jailer of journalists, according to CPJ’s research.
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