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Index China Main Page War Losses Cause China to Sign Away Sovereignty People's Republic of China Is Established China Is Condemned for Poor Treatment of Tibetans President Nixon's Visit to China Establishes New Relations Student Demonstrators Are Killed at Tiananmen Square China Becomes an Economic Power, but Continues to Suppress Personal Liberties Natural Disasters Ravage China China Hosts a Successful Olympics Space Exploration, Government Reforms, and Military Crackdowns Leaders Propose Strict Limits on Media China Sides with Russia to Block U.N. Action in Syria Blind Dissident Seeks Refuge at American Embassy Tension Increases with Asian Neighbors Over Islands in 2012 China's Economy Falls to a Three-Year Low in 2012 The Transfer of Power Begins Protests over Newspaper Censorship Grows Chinese Hackers Attack The New York Times The Transfer of Power is Complete Powerful Earthquake Kills 186 in Sichuan Province

Protests over Newspaper Censorship Grows

Protest began in early January 2013 over censorship of Southern Weekend, a newspaper. Journalists at the paper said local propaganda officials were interfering with their reporting and called for the ouster of Tuo Zhen, a propaganda official in the Guangdong Province. The journalists at Southern Weekend said he was responsible for a change in a recent editorial that called for more respect for constitutional rights. By the time the piece was published it praised the current political system.

On January 7, 2013, hundreds of people gathered outside of the Southern Weekend headquarters to protest against the censorship. Meanwhile celebrities responded with a show of support via the internet. Actress Yao Chen quoted Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn online: One word of truth outweighs the whole world. Hung Huang, an entrepreneur, stated online that Tuo "destroyed, overnight, all the credibility the country's top leadership had labored to re-establish since the 18th Party Congress."

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