Senate debates

Wednesday, 6 September 2006

Ching Cheong

4:29 pm

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I move:

That the Senate—
(a)
notes, with alarm, the 5 year prison sentence delivered by Chinese authorities to journalist Ching Cheong, the Hong Kong-based correspondent for Singapore’s Strait Times newspaper;
(b)
condemns the crackdown on dissent and free journalism in China ahead of the Beijing Olympics in 2008; and
(c)
calls on the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Downer) to raise the matter with Chinese authorities immediately.

Question put.

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