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China detains veteran journalist for state secrets

By Gillian Wong
Published May 8, 2014 7:35am ET
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China detains veteran journalist for state secrets
In this June 9, 2012 photo, Chinese journalist Gao Yu, who was imprisoned for nearly 6 year in the 1990s on charges of leaking state secrets, attends an opening ceremony of Chinese artist Liu Xia's photo exhibition in Hong Kong. Prominent Chinese journalist Gao Yu has been "criminally detained" just weeks ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown for allegedly leaking state secrets to a foreign news site, the state news agency Xinhua reported Thursday, May 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung) | Kin Cheung

BEIJING (AP) — A veteran journalist who was among prominent intellectuals jailed during China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has been detained just weeks ahead of the 25th anniversary of the bloodshed on accusations of leaking state secrets.

Police in Beijing detained the influential independent journalist Gao Yu, 70, for illegally obtaining a secret Communist Party document and providing it to a website for publication, the official Xinhua News Agency said Thursday. An investigation was continuing.

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