„The media in the Czech Republic have been spreading the news that a Chinese journalist, Yang Yiming, with whom I have been acquainted for some time on a professional level, has been arrested for alleged espionage activities.," Helena Kočová, editor of Naší pravda, said and continued:
He was a perfectly standard editor who worked for Guangming Daily and repeatedly received accreditation from the Foreign Ministry when Jan Lipavský was minister and Petr Fiala was prime minister. It was the government of Petr Fiala, on the other hand, that put Czech-Chinese relations on ice, and it was also that government that came up with the addendum to the law on Ukraine, which introduced the criminalisation of the work of people working in the media simply on the basis that they publish publicly available information that might be sensitive to the state, but if that information is publicly available, then it is standard journalistic work for any editor to use such information for their work.
I got to know Mr. Jang I-ming purely from a professional point of view, as I know many other Czech editors, as well as editors from all over the world.
And the entire law under which this journalist was detained? From the very beginning, the new government of Andrej Babiš has said in its programme statement that it wants to abolish it because it is very vague and easily abused. Which may well be the case here.
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