Journalist Reporting on Chinese Stock Market Detained in China: CPJ

Journalist Reporting on Chinese Stock Market Detained in China: CPJ

Journalist Reporting on Chinese Stock Market Detained in China: CPJ Journalist Reporting on Chinese Stock Market Detained in China: CPJ By Lucy Westcott 8/26/15 at 6:13 PM World The Committee to Protect Journalists says a Chinese financial journalist has been detained in China since Tuesday. An investor looks at an electronic board showing stock information of Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index at a brokerage house in Beijing, China, August 26. Jason Lee/Reuters Chinese authorities on Tuesday detained a reporter who has been writing about the Beijing's turbulent financial markets, according to the Committee to Project Journalists (CPJ), a New York–based advocacy group. Wang Xiaolu, a reporter for Caijing , a Beijing-based financial magazine, was arrested at his house on Tuesday and accused of "fabricating and spreading false information about securities and futures trading," according to the Chinese state news agency, Xinhua . It's unclear if Wang has been formally charged.

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