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Dec 12, 2020 03:26 AM EST
Chinese authorities detained a Chinese national working at the Beijing bureau of Bloomberg News on suspicion of endangering national security.
According to Bloomberg News on Friday, Haze Fan s last contact with one of her editors was before noon on Monday. Some witnesses shared that she was seen being escorted from her apartment building by security officials who were only wearing plain clothes.
The report further stated that they had also sought information regarding Haze Fan s whereabouts from the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. and the Chinese government this week.
On Thursday, the news organization shared the information they had received confirmation that Chinese authorities have detained Fan as she was suspected of participating in activities that endangered China s national security.
Haze Fan, Bloomberg News Assistant, Charged With Jeopardizing National Security
Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Dec 11, 2020
On December 11, Bloomberg News announced that Haze Fan, a Chinese news assistant, was arrested by plainclothes officers in Beijing and charged with national security crimes. She appears to be the first news assistant to face national security charges since Zhao Yan, a former New York Times employee, in 2004. Fan’s arrest comes on the heels of Australian CGTN journalist Cheng Lei’s detention, and the expulsion of the majority of American and Australian foreign correspondents. At Bloomberg News, Reto Gregori and Madeleine Lim reported on