China closes liberal website after reform call
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | January 4, 2013 19:39A liberal Chinese journal had its website shut down on Friday, it said, after it urged the country’s Communist leaders — who regularly promise reform — to follow the constitution.
The website of Annals of the Yellow Emperor, a prominent Beijing-based publication, was closed days after it published an article arguing that China’s constitution lays out a roadmap for political change.
Attempts to access the website Friday led to a page with a cartoon policeman holding up a badge and the message: “The website you are visiting has been closed because it has not been filed on record.”
The move follows a similar call in a key liberal newspaper being censored by the authorities.
Chinese liberals argue that rights enshrined in the constitution, including freedom of speech, press and assembly, are not respected by the ruling Communist party.
“At around nine am today, the website was closed,” said a post on the Annals of the Yellow Emperor’s official web page on Sina Weibo, a website similar to Twitter.
The journal’s editors received a message from Internet regulator the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology last month stating that the website had been “cancelled”, the post said.
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