Freed Journalist Gao Yu Vows To Uphold Truth
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2019-04-23 HKT 17:37
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Mainland journalist Gao Yu, who was given a five-year jail term for leaking state secrets, said on Tuesday that she will continue to tell the truth despite the risk of losing her freedom again.
Gao was talking to RTHK after completing her sentence, spent mostly under house arrest.
She was convicted by a Beijing court in 2015 for leaking a confidential Communist Party document to journalists of Germany's Deutsche Welle, for whom she used to contribute. She later appeared on mainland state television “confessing her crimes”.
Initially she was given a seven-year prison sentence, but a higher court later reduced this to five years. The court also allowed Gao to spend the term under house arrest due to her health problems.
But in an exclusive interview on Tuesday, Gao denied leaking state secrets, saying she had simply downloaded some educational material meant for party members from the internet.
The 75-year-old added that the authorities could not prove that she had shared the information with overseas media.
Gao said she had been under constant harassment from officials over the past few years and hopes to go abroad and start afresh.
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