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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Chinese journalist (born 1949)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Ching_chong" title="Ching chong">Ching chong</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">In this <a href="/wiki/Chinese_name" title="Chinese name">Chinese name</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_surname" title="Chinese 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espionage for the <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Republic of China</a> (2005)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal penalty</th><td class="infobox-data">5 years in prison (2006)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Released (2008)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Mary Lau Mun-yee</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1982)<wbr /></div><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color:#b0c4de">Ching Cheong</th></tr><tr style="display:none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language">Chinese</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language text"><span lang="zh-Hani" style="font-size: 1rem;">程翔</span></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox-subbox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="display:inline-table; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%; text-align: left;color: #202122; background-color: #f9ffbc;">Transcriptions</th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Standard_Chinese" title="Standard Chinese">Standard Mandarin</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Hanyu_Pinyin" class="mw-redirect" title="Hanyu Pinyin">Hanyu Pinyin</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Chéng Xiáng</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Wade%E2%80%93Giles" title="Wade–Giles">Wade–Giles</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Ch'eng Hsiang</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Mandarin" title="Yale romanization of Mandarin">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn">Chéng Syáng</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">IPA</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="zh-Latn"><span class="IPA" lang="cmn-Latn-fonipa" style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Mandarin" title="Help:IPA/Mandarin">[ʈʂʰə̌ŋ ɕjǎŋ]</a></span></span></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #dcffc9;"><a href="/wiki/Cantonese" title="Cantonese">Yue: Cantonese</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Yale_romanization_of_Cantonese" title="Yale romanization of Cantonese">Yale Romanization</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Chìhng Chèuhng</span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jyutping" title="Jyutping">Jyutping</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Yue Chinese-language romanization"><span style="font-style: normal" lang="yue-Latn">Cing<sup>4</sup> Coeng<sup>4</sup></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:HK_Victoria_Park_Cable_TV_HK_RTHK_Free_Ching_Cheong.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/HK_Victoria_Park_Cable_TV_HK_RTHK_Free_Ching_Cheong.JPG/220px-HK_Victoria_Park_Cable_TV_HK_RTHK_Free_Ching_Cheong.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/HK_Victoria_Park_Cable_TV_HK_RTHK_Free_Ching_Cheong.JPG/330px-HK_Victoria_Park_Cable_TV_HK_RTHK_Free_Ching_Cheong.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/HK_Victoria_Park_Cable_TV_HK_RTHK_Free_Ching_Cheong.JPG/440px-HK_Victoria_Park_Cable_TV_HK_RTHK_Free_Ching_Cheong.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Posters in <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Park_(Hong_Kong)" title="Victoria Park (Hong Kong)">Victoria Park, Hong Kong</a>, decrying Cheong's ongoing detention in <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a> (July 2007)</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Ching Cheong</b> (<a href="/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_characters" title="Traditional Chinese characters">Chinese</a>: <span lang="zh-Hant">程翔</span>; born 22 December 1949) is a Chinese senior journalist with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Straits_Times" title="The Straits Times">The Straits Times</a></i>. He is best known for having been interned by the <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">People's Republic of China</a> on allegations of spying for <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a>. He was detained in April 2005 and spent over 1,000 days in prison; his sentencing in August 2006 was for five years' imprisonment, scheduled to end in August 2011, but he was released just before <a href="/wiki/Chinese_New_Year" title="Chinese New Year">Chinese New Year</a> in February 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-postmagazine_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-postmagazine-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ching_Cheong&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Cheong was born in <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>, <a href="/wiki/China" title="China">China</a>, on 3 December 1949. Educated at <a href="/wiki/St._Paul%27s_College,_Hong_Kong" title="St. Paul's College, Hong Kong">St. Paul's College, Hong Kong</a>, he graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hong_Kong" title="University of Hong Kong">University of Hong Kong</a> with a bachelor's degree in economics in 1973. </p><p>In 1974, he joined the <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong" title="Hong Kong">Hong Konger</a> pro-<a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">CCP</a> newspaper <a href="/wiki/Wen_Wei_Po" title="Wen Wei Po">Wen Wei Po</a> (<span lang="zh-Hant">文匯報</span>), of which he eventually became vice-editorial manager. However, following the <a href="/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre" title="1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre">Tiananmen Square massacre</a> of 4 June 1989, Cheong and around 40 other journalists resigned from the newspaper in protest.<sup id="cite_ref-postmagazine_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-postmagazine-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, he and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Li_Zhisong&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Li Zhisong (page does not exist)">Li Zhisong</a>, along with a few other journalists, founded <i>Commentary</i>, a political magazine focused on the CCP. </p><p>In 1996, he joined the staff of the <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>-based <i><a href="/wiki/The_Straits_Times" title="The Straits Times">The Straits Times</a></i>. Initially, he was assigned to the <a href="/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> desk, where his articles clearly voiced a <a href="/wiki/Cross-Strait_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Cross-Strait relations">pro-unification stance</a>. These articles are collected in his book <i>Will Taiwan Break Away: The Rise of Taiwanese Nationalism</i>. Cheong was later named as the journal's China correspondent. </p><p>In a 2021 article for the American non-profit think tank <a href="/wiki/Middle_East_Media_Research_Institute" title="Middle East Media Research Institute">MEMRI</a>, Cheong reflected on the <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_protests" title="2019–2020 Hong Kong protests">2019–2020 Hong Kong protests</a>, describing China as plotting to destroy Hong Kong by "keeping Hong Kong, but not <a href="/wiki/Hongkongers" title="Hongkongers">Hong Kong people</a>" in light of the <a href="/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_extradition_bill" title="2019 Hong Kong extradition bill">2019 Hong Kong extradition bill</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Espionage_charges">Espionage charges</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ching_Cheong&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Espionage charges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Entry_into_mainland_China">Entry into mainland China</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ching_Cheong&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Entry into mainland China"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the spring of 2005, he entered <a href="/wiki/Mainland_China" title="Mainland China">mainland China</a> on a <a href="/wiki/Home_Visit_Permit" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Visit Permit">Home Return Permit</a>, while researching former Communist Party leader, <a href="/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang" title="Zhao Ziyang">Zhao Ziyang</a>. On 22 April 2005, he was charged with spying on behalf of a foreign intelligence agency and was arrested in <a href="/wiki/Guangzhou" title="Guangzhou">Guangzhou</a>. </p><p>The Chinese Foreign Ministry later reported that he had confessed to these accusations. Formal charges were drawn up on 5 August. He was charged with passing state secrets to the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of China">Republic of China (Taiwan)</a> over a period of five years. In particular, he was accused of using money provided by Taiwan to purchase political and military information. He is the first Hong Kong journalist to be charged with spying since the <a href="/wiki/Transfer_of_sovereignty_over_Hong_Kong" class="mw-redirect" title="Transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong">transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong</a> to the PRC in 1997. Cheong's wife Mary Lau said that the charges were 'ludicrous'.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> She also added that Cheong had apparently fallen victim to <a href="/wiki/Entrapment" title="Entrapment">entrapment</a> by an intermediary as he was trying to obtain recordings of secret interviews with the former Prime Minister.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_reaction">International reaction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ching_Cheong&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: International reaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2005, the <a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_Journalists_Association" title="Hong Kong Journalists Association">Hong Kong Journalists Association</a> and <a href="/wiki/Reporters_Without_Borders" title="Reporters Without Borders">Reporters Without Borders</a> organised a petition calling for Cheong's immediate release from unfair detention. The petition, containing more than 13,000 signatures, was sent to <a href="/wiki/Hu_Jintao" title="Hu Jintao">Hu Jintao</a>, then <a href="/wiki/General_Secretary_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party" title="General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party">General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party</a> and <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the People's Republic of China">President of the People's Republic of China</a>. The <a href="/wiki/International_Federation_of_Journalists" title="International Federation of Journalists">International Federation of Journalists</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Committee_to_Protect_Journalists" title="Committee to Protect Journalists">Committee to Protect Journalists</a> also protested Cheong's detention. The British Government was also asked to <a href="/wiki/Home_Visit_Permit#Ching_Cheong" class="mw-redirect" title="Home Visit Permit">intervene</a> as Cheong held a <a href="/wiki/British_National_(Overseas)" title="British National (Overseas)">British National (Overseas)</a> passport. </p><p>During the incident, some tabloids in Hong Kong insinuated that he was spying because he had to earn money for a mistress in China. The supposed mistress went to Hong Kong from China and gave witness that she had no relationship with Cheong. The accusation ceased when a lot of evidence showed that Cheong was innocent.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On 12 January 2006, 35 legislative councillors including 10 pro-<a href="/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing">Beijing</a> councillors (including three from the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(Hong_Kong)" title="Liberal Party (Hong Kong)">Liberal Party</a>, three from the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Alliance_for_the_Betterment_and_Progress_of_Hong_Kong" title="Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong">DAB</a>, and one from <a href="/wiki/The_Alliance_(Hong_Kong)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Alliance (Hong Kong)">the Alliance Party</a>) signed an open letter asking the Chinese authorities to release Cheong unless there was sufficient evidence. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Imprisonment_and_release">Imprisonment and release</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ching_Cheong&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Imprisonment and release"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 22 February 2006, the prosecutor in charge of Cheong's case decided to send his file back to the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_State_Security_(China)" title="Ministry of State Security (China)">State Security Department</a> for further investigation. The trial was thus delayed for at least one month. </p><p>Cheong was tried <i><a href="/wiki/In_camera" title="In camera">in camera</a></i>, found guilty of spying, and was sentenced on 31 August 2006 to five years' imprisonment.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The family's statement on the same day stated the verdict was extremely biased, adopting only evidence of the Procuratorate while ignoring almost all defence arguments and Cheong's defence.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>On 1 September 2006, Cheong's wife reported that her husband had called the verdict "very unfair" and vowed to appeal the sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 5 February 2008, the Chinese government announced that they had released Cheong from prison early, days before the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_New_Year" title="Chinese New Year">Chinese New Year</a> holiday.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ching_Cheong&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jiang_Weiping" title="Jiang Weiping">Jiang Weiping</a>, a Chinese journalist imprisoned from 2000 to 2006 for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party in his Hong Kong publications</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Lai" title="Jimmy Lai">Jimmy Lai</a>, a Hong Konger activist imprisoned since 2020 for organizing public demonstrations against the Chinese Communist Party</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ching_Cheong&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060813112345/http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/74020/">International press freedom groups call for Ching Cheong's release</a>: <a href="/wiki/International_Freedom_of_Expression_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="International Freedom of Expression Exchange">IFEX</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hkja.org.hk/">Hong Kong Journalists Association</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060113123725/http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/GF09Ad04.html">"Red Fear in Hong Kong"</a>, The Asia Times, 9 June 2005.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20110604020736/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1634586,00.html">"Journalist held for seeking truth on Tiananmen killings"</a>, The Times Online, 31 May 2005.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.rfa.org/english/background/china/2005/05/31/china_journalist_arrest/">"Detained Journalist's Wife Says China Set Him Up"</a>, Radio Free Asia, 31 May 2005.</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080218065233/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Front_Page/GE31Aa02.html">"Zhao manuscript chase leads to arrest"</a>, The Standard, 31 May 2005.</li> <li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6179016.stm">China rejects journalist appeal</a></i>, BBC NEWS</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output 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