China: Financial weekly closed for three months for reporting on a public bank

Reporters sans frontières - China

"Reporters Without Borders today condemned a three-month ban slapped on financial weekly China Business Post, accused of having broken the law in an article on the Agricultural Bank of China.

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Following negotiations, the newspaper was able
to appear as usual on 11 September, but the 18 September issue was
banned. This sanction followed complaints from leading officials in
Hunan, southern China and from the Agricultural bank of China. The
weekly in July accused the Changde, Hunan office of the public bank of
poor management of assets."