


Chinese blogger When Wei has been beaten to death by Government authorities for the crime of attempting to record a protest on his mobile phone.
Wei Wenhua, the manager of a water resources construction company in Tianmen City, in Hubei province, was beaten to death by a dozen municipal policemen on 7 January when he filmed them clashing with local residents opposed to waste-dumping on a site near their homes. The national Bureau of Public Security has said it is investigating his death.
[via] Reporters Without Borders 1 and Reporters Without Borders 2
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