Zhang Jialong

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Zhang Jialong ( Chinese : 张 贾 龙, traditional Chinese : 張 賈 龍; Pinyin : Zhɑ̄ng Jiɑ̌lóng; born May 22, 1988 in Guiyang , Guizhou Province ) is a Chinese journalist, blogger and former editor of Tencent Holdings Ltd.

He graduated from Inner Mongolia University in 2010. His major was history, but unexpectedly found his first job and became a journalist .

He reported for the business and financial news magazine Caijing about the destruction of the workshop of the artist Ai Weiwei in Shanghai . Also about Zhao Lianhai , a father whose son was one of the victims of the melamine-tainted milk substitute, and other legal defenders.

Arrested, interrogated and locked up for tweeting

In April 2011, Zhang Jialong was interrogated by the Beijing police for 24 hours and his home ransacked because he posted the short message on Twitter : "Today a taxi driver said that two thirds of taxi drivers in Beijing will go on strike during the May Day holiday" . As a result, Zhang was given ten days of administrative detention for "posting false information on a foreign website (Twitter) that was retweeted 37 times and disrupted social order."

The incident was listed as a "significant, particularly sensitive case" by the crime detection group of the public transport unit of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. Beijing police called Zhang a "dangerous element" who "struck a strike on the Internet" and "tried to provoke disruption to harm the capital's public traffic regulations."

Meeting with former US Secretary of State in China

Zhang Jialong was invited, as one of four Chinese bloggers, to a meeting with then United States Secretary of State John Kerry on February 15, 2014, during his visit to China.

At that 40-minute meeting, Zhang asked the Foreign Minister, "Are you going to meet with Chinese people who seek freedom?" And help " destroy this Great Firewall of China that is blocking the Internet?" Zhang Kerry also asked him to Review reports that said American companies helped the Chinese government introduce measures that the government could use to control which websites Chinese citizens can access.

Zhang said that the situation for political and human rights activists had not improved and that he was concerned about "prisoners of conscience", particularly Xu Zhiyong , a human rights activist who was sentenced to four years in prison last month. He was also concerned about Liu Xiaobo , a writer and activist who was jailed on charges of "inciting subversion of state power". While in prison, Liu was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

Zhang wanted to know if Kerry Liu Xia would visit, the wife of Liu Xiaobo, who stood for the Nobel Prize winning her husband under house arrest and, just as he had heard, was ill. The foreign minister said the issue of the Chinese political prisoners was raised every time he met with Chinese officials. Kerry did not respond directly to this appeal, but stated that he would only be in China for a day and a half.

On February 16, the Chinese propaganda authorities ordered that all web portal reports of "the meeting of the four major Chinese social media outlets (called the Big Vs) with the US Secretary of State to talk about 'Internet Freedom'" be deleted .

Criticized for calling for internet freedom

Meanwhile, Zhang Jialong's name has become a sensitive word on Tencent Weibo, a Tencent Chinese microblogging service. Although he was still able to log into his Weibo account and post, the search for his name yielded the following result: "Search result cannot be displayed, according to relevant laws, regulations and guidelines."

On February 17, 2014, the Global Times published an editorial titled "Asking the US Secretary of State for 'Freedom' Was a Pretty Cute Show" (Asking the US Secretary of State for 'Freedom' Was a Pretty Cute Show). The article criticized Zhang (without naming him) and the appeal he made to the US Secretary of State about China's internet freedom, calling him a dissident. Known for spurring nationalist sentiment, the Global Times is an offshoot of the Renmin Ribao ( People's Daily ), the mouthpiece of the Communist Party.

Dismissed for publishing an article

On February 19, 2014, at the invitation of the Foreign Policy website , Zhang wrote an article in which he set out everything he would like to tell Mr. Kerry: “Since 1949, the Chinese dictators have been robbing their citizens of their freedom and forcing the citizens of the country into Afraid to live. The people of China are still unable to have free access to the World Wide Web. For many years, Chinese striving for freedom have shed their blood and sweat. The Chinese people will continue to try to tear down every wall erected by their dictatorial government. But if the United States could help them in their efforts to destroy China's notorious Great Firewall , that would help China realize internet freedom more quickly. ”He called on the US to introduce visa sanctions on those who contributed had to create the Great Firewall like Fang Binxing , the father of the Great Firewall.

On May 20, Tencent's head of department notified Zhang that he was being held for disposition because he had quoted radical expressions in his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry and because of the propaganda guidelines he had published online. He was told that he would get a final decision after Tencent consulted with the propaganda authorities. On May 23, Tencent's human resources department notified him that his employment contract had been terminated for "leaking trade secrets and other confidential and sensitive information."

State Department concerned about blogger's dismissal

On May 30, 2014, the US expressed grave concern that a Chinese blogger who had spoken to Secretary of State John Kerry had been fired. The US has been asked to question China's internet restrictions. The State Department said it would be very worrying if a private employee was fired for publicly expressing his views. The US also expressed concern over China's "ongoing crackdown" of free speech.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Two Chinese journalists missing, feared detained , Committee to Protect Journalists, May 4, 2011, accessed May 23, 2017
  2. ^ Kathleen E. McLaughlin, Journalists Missing , Global Post, May 3, 2011, accessed May 23, 2017
  3. ↑ 打击 犯罪 维护 公共安全 —— 记 "北京 · 平安 交通 优秀 团队" 北京市 公安局 公交 总队 刑侦 支队 案件 侦查 中队 ( Memento from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (in Chinese), accessed on May 23, 2017
  4. ^ A b c d Michael R. Gordon, Chinese Ask Kerry to Help Tear Down a Firewall , The New York Times, February 15, 2014, accessed May 23, 2017
  5. ↑ Microblogs, Big Vs and bottom lines , The Economist, August 31, 2013, accessed May 23, 2017
  6. ↑ 社 评 ： 向 美 国务卿 "要 自由" ， 好 萌 的 表演 (in Chinese), 环球 网. February 17, 2014, accessed May 23, 2017
  7. ↑ Zhang Jialong, Everything I Wish I'd Told John Kerry ( January 7, 2015 memento in the Internet Archive ), Foreign Policy, February 20, 2014, accessed May 23, 2017
  8. ↑ Austin Ramzy, Chinese Blogger Says He Was Fired After Meeting With Kerry , The New York Times, May 26, 2014, accessed May 23, 2017
  9. ↑ Christina Larson, Chinese blogger Says He Was Fired From Tencent After Meeting John Kerry , Bloomberg Businessweek, May 28, 2014, accessed May 23, 2017
  10. ↑ US concerned over China blogger who met Kerry ( March 3, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ), Associated Press, May 30, 2014, accessed May 23, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Zhang, Jialong
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Guiyang , Guizhou Province