2009.11.19
·Verifying
·Importance III
·Sources 3
·Guangzhou, Guangdong
In November 2009, Southern Weekly left its front-page headline blank, using an empty layout to protest the propaganda department's forced removal of an editorial accompanying an interview with Obama.
2009.11.15
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 2
·Shenyang, Liaoning
On November 11, 2009, the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court sentenced Xia Junfeng to death for intentional homicide in a first-instance ruling; his defense lawyer said the court refused to accept testimony from six eyewitnesses and instead relied on the testimony of chengguan officers.