Hong Kong
Chinese police have been holding a prominent Hong Kong reporter for more than a month, the man’s wife said this week. Ching Cheong, a journalist for the Singapore Straits Times, was arrested when he traveled to mainland China to pick up a transcript of secret interviews with a Communist leader purged after opposing the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Chinese authorities ordered Ching’s wife, Mary Lau, to keep quiet, but she came forward after getting a tip that he was going to be charged with treason. She said she feared that Chinese officials had tricked him into traveling to the mainland.
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