Chinese paper calls for release of reporter

GUANGZHOU, China - Photo shows the front page of Oct. 23, 2013 edition of the Xinkuaibao newspaper based in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, with a headline reading, "Please release him." The paper urges authorities to release reporter Chen Yongzhou as he was taken away by police the previous week from adjacent Hunan Province's Changsha City for allegedly defaming a listed company through a series of news stories exposing its financial irregularities. The paper again requested his release the following day.

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