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Mr. Li, Changqing a journalist with the Fuzhou Daily, was convicted on 24 Jan 2006 of "spreading false and alarmist information" on the banned US-based website Boxun News exposing a dengue outbreak before the Chinese authorities officially announced it and sentenced to 3 years in prison. Mr. Li was previously detained in early 2005 after supporting whistleblower Huang Jingao. Mr. Huang was sentenced to life in prison in November 2005 on corruption charges, after he publicly exposed official misconduct in a letter to the People's Daily newspaper: up to 86 other journalists and internet-users are reportedly detained in China, more than in any other country in the world. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: 'Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes the freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media, regardless of frontiers'ref
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