Three editors in China fired over Tianenmen Square advertisement

Posted by Ben Thalman on June 8, 2007 at 11:40 AM

Chengdu Evening News, a Chinese tabloid, fired three of its editors after an ad saluting mothers of protestors killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown appeared in the paper. 

The small ad read: “Paying tribute to the strong(-willed) mothers of June 4 victims," and was printed Monday, on the 18th anniversary of the event.

Source: Reuters through Yahoo  and European Journalis Centre
 

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