China: Anti-censorship protests continue outside Southern Weekly HQ

Journalists at one of China's largest newspapers, Southern Weekly, working on the Southern Weekend publication, are currently on strike against government censorship.

On Monday and continuing on Tuesday protesters gathered outside the newspaper's headquarters in Guangzhou. The strike is a rare show of dissent in China against propaganda officials. Chinese media are 'supervised' by so-called propaganda departments that often change content to align it with party thinking.

The publication, considered by many to be China's most respectable newspaper, saw journalists and some managerial staff calling for an investigation into the censorship of its annual address for 2013, and for the resignation of Tuo Zhen, the propaganda official who penned his own unauthorised version.

Journalists at the newspaper began airing their grievances on their personal microblog accounts, with some having their accounts deleted. (NewsPoint)