30 December 2010
Sun Hongjie
Beating
A Chinese journalist died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a gang beating that some say was linked to his investigative work, a colleague at his newspaper said.
Sun Hongjie, a senior reporter at the Northern Xinjiang Morning Post, died at a hospital in the city of Kuitun 10 days after he was beaten by six men at a construction site, said a man at the paper who identified himself as a supervisor but refused to give his name. Police have said the attack was the result of a personal dispute, but many Chinese journalists believe otherwise. The Global Times newspaper said one of Sun's recent reports suggested a township government in Kuitun forced the demolition of a dairy company's building to make space for government officials' homes.
