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BEIJING (AP) - Communist authorities have shut down a newsletter that monitored non-government groups working to improve China's record on environmental and labor issues, the publication's British founder said Wednesday.
The closure of the Beijing-based China Development Brief, which published Chinese and English-language versions, comes amid efforts to limit dissent ahead of a sensitive party congress later this year.
Founder and editor Nick Young said the Beijing Statistical Bureau and city police ordered him last Wednesday to shut down the bimonthly electronic newsletter. He said he was told he had violated the statistics law by conducting "unauthorized surveys."
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