Citizen journalist and human rights defender Ding Lingjie has been missing since June 3 according to her family. Ding Lingjie is believed to have been taken into police custody on June 3 after she told her friend that the police of Dingzhou city of Hebei Province were going after her. The police of the city told Ding’s younger brother that they had no knowledge of the incident.

American reporter for Buzzfeed News, and member of The Coalition For Women In Journalism, Megha Rajagoapalan has become the latest foreign journalist to be victimised by China, which has a history of retaliating against news organizations and individual journalists for critical coverage.

Ranked as the fifth least free country in the world according to the World Press Freedom Index, China is notorious for its treatment of journalists, especially foreign journalists. The Coalition For Women In Journalism is worried about retaliatory actions by the Chinese government against journalists who are from the US.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism is once again dismayed at the way Chinese government and authorities silence the press. Cheng Lei, a prominent anchor on state-owned English news channel China Global Television Network (CGTN) was detained on August 14 with no warrant or legal reason.

Over the weekend journalist and author Leta Hong Fincher has been on the radar of a trolling campaign over her tweets on the mass sterilization of Uyghur and other Muslim women in Xinjiang.

Zhang Zhan, a citizen journalist based in Shanghai, has been arrested after initially being detained for her coronavirus reporting. She has been held by the police in the municipality’s Pudong district on “public disturbance charges”.

Beijing has taken some really problematic decisions in a bid to suppress freedom of the press in the country. The Chinese government has been secretive about the state of governance following the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan city, which led doctors-turned-whistle blowers, bloggers and citizen journalists to use alternatives for conveying news otherwise censored by the regime.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism welcomes the release of freelance journalist and #MeToo activist Sophia Huang Xueqin. She has been finally freed after being detained for three months in Guangzhou, a city in southern China.

The Coalition For Women In Journalism condemns the arrest of independent journalist and feminist, Sophia Huang Xueqin, who has been in police custody in China’s Guangzhou city after she was summoned on October 17.