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 | Members of pro-democracy group 'Frontier' stand behind a portrait of jailed Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong during a demonstration in Hong Kong September 4, 2006. The Singapore daily newspaper has appealed to China to reduce the five-year prison sentence for its Hong Kong-based China correspondent who was jailed on a charge of spying. click to open  |  | Protesters hold a banner with a picture of Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based China correspondent for the Singapore newspaper The Straits Times, as a security guard looks on during a protest outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong, Sept. 4, 2006. Ching was sentenced last Thursday on charges of spying for rival Taiwan. click to open |  | Ching Cheong, China chief correspondent of Singapore's Straits Times newspaper speaks in this undated file picture released by Straits Times on May 31, 2005. China formally arrested Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong on August 5, 2005 on a charge of spying for rival Taiwan, the official Xinhua news agency said. If charged and convicted, Ching could face the death penalty. Ching's detention in April had sparked fears in Hong Kong that Beijing was tightening its noose over media freedom in the former British colony, which reverted to Chinese rule in 1997. click to open |
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