In China, Journalist Reporting on Stock Market Held by Police

New York, August 26, 2015--Chinese authorities should immediately release a journalist who has been held since Tuesday and accused of spreading false information, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Wang Xiaolu is a reporter for the Beijing-based business magazine Caijing.   "Chinese authorities' hypersensitivity to fluctuations in the financial markets is no reason to intimidate and jail a journalist for covering the news," said CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz. "We call on Chinese authorities to immediately release Wang Xiaolu."