【新唐人2013年01月08日讯】法广：中宣部严厉定性南周事件
《南方周末》新年特刊献辞遭篡改而引发的争端继续发展，在数百民众到南方报业集团总部外集会献花声援《南周》的同时，中共中宣部发出通知，力挺宣传官员庹震。
据《法国国际广播电台》报导，中共中宣部对事件进行了严厉定性，强调了三个要点，首先，中共党管媒体是不可动摇的基本原则﹔第二，《南方周末》这次出版事故与庹震无关；最后，此事有境外敌对势力介入。
报导说，中宣部除禁止媒体人在网上发言支持抗争，还要求各地媒体、网站1月8号全文刊发一篇《环球时报》的评论，似乎将掀起一波揭批《南方周末》的小运动。
《南方周末》员工对前景悲观
据英国广播公司BBC中文网报导，中共中宣部对南周事件的定性，让《南方周末》的员工感到绝望，认为《南周》必死无疑。
报导引述消息人士的话说，“虽然《南周》这份报纸应该还会存在，但可能就会成了一份党报，从前的好东西都会没了。”同时，这位消息人士还担心《南周》接下来会发生人员清洗。
英媒：南周事件关乎未来中国走向
南周事件最近几天的发展，也引起全球主流媒体关注。英国《泰晤士报》指出，过去几周以来，中共政府的审查行为显示，他们对外界的批评比过去更为敏感。
《每日电讯报》则引述香港大学中国传媒研究计划（China Media Project）研究员班志远（David Bandurski）的话说，南周事件对习近平领导下的中国大陆未来走向，有很严重的质疑，他认为，这不只是一个媒体的报导而已，更关乎未来中国的走向。而且从目前很多迹象看来，情况是倒退而不是前进。
停止劳教制度 为“新政”作态？
据大陆多家媒体报导，中共政法委书记孟建柱1月7号宣布，中共将在今年停止使用劳教制度。在一些民众为废除恶法欢呼的同时，大陆多位法学专家则对此表示审慎乐观。
据《德国之声》报导，知名法学学者滕彪指出，孟建柱宣布的关键信息是，中共当局并没有宣布废止而是停止使用劳教制度。
滕彪认为，劳教制度即使现在停止，也不是执政者释放出的善意改革信号，而是官方在劳教受害者的抗争、法学学者、律师一直以来的呼吁、公众的压力下作出的姿态。
滕彪说，劳教恶法即使彻底取消，中共的法外之法也依然存在，对于现在被劳教的对像，中共当局仍然还有黑监狱、居所外监视居住、软禁、强制旅游、被精神病、被救助站、强迫失踪、学习班等办法，可以弥补劳教停止后的功能。
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Propaganda Department Holds Stern Position
on Southern Weekly Incident
The message that “Southern Weekly’s" New Year special
issue was tampered with has triggered endless disputes.
Hundreds of people went to to the headquarters of the
Southern Newspaper Group with flowers to show their support.
The Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) issued a notice firmly supporting Tuo Zheng, the Propaganda Department Minister.
“Radio France Internationale” reported the CCP Central
Propaganda Department confirmed three things about the incident.
1.The CCP’s media is unshakable.
2. The Southern Weekly incident has nothing to do with Tuo Zheng.
3. There were hostile forces from outsides trying to interfere.
The report said the Central Propaganda Department stopped
the media people speaking in support of the protest.
It also urged all media to post a review in the
Global Times on January 8th.
It seems to set off a wave of exposing and criticizing the
Southern Weekly.
“Southern Weekly" Employees Are
Pessimistic about the Future
The BBC report said, the Central Propaganda Department
gave a qualitative assessment of the Southern Weekly incident.
The staff of Southern Weekly are too desperate to believe
there is any chance for the Southern Weekly to survive.
The report quoted sources as saying, “Southern Weekly
newspaper would probably continue to exist.
However it would most likely turn into the Party’s newspaper,
with all the good stuff lost.
At the same time, the sources also worried about the internal
staff being cleansed within the “Southern Weekly.”
Southern Weekly Incident Points to
the Future of China’s Media
The unfolding of the “Southern Weekly Incident"
recently also has caught global mainstream media attention.
The British Times Newspaper pointed out that,
in the past few weeks,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) monitoring behavior
showed it is more sensitive than in the past to outside criticism.
The “Daily Telegraph” quoted David Bandurskit, researcher of
the China Media Research Program, University of Hong Kong,
He said said the Southern Weekly incident creates serious
doubt about China under the leadership of Xi Jinping.
David believes that it was not about media coverage,
but it is more about the future direction of China.
Looking at many events, he thinks that China is a step
backwards rather than forward.
Is Stopping Reeducation through Labor Camps
Actually a New Political System?
According to many Mainland media reports,
Meng Jianzhu secretary of the Politics and Law Committee
of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced on Jan. 7th that
the CCP will stop using the reeducation through labor system.
While some people have cheered for the abolition of the evil
law, Mainland legal experts have expressed cautious optimism.
According to the Deutsche Welle reports,
well-known legal scholar Teng Biao pointed out that
key information from Meng Jianzhu showed that the
CCP would stop the use of reeducation through labor system, but not elimination of it.
Teng Biao believes that even if reeducation through
labor system now stops, it is not a well-intentioned reform signal released by the rulers.
It is only a reaction to the continuous protests from the victims,
calls from law scholars and lawyers, and public pressure.
Teng Biao said that if re-education through labor laws were
completely eliminated, the CCP’s extrajudicial laws still exist.
The CCP still has black jails, residential surveillance,
house arrest,
forced transportation to a mental clinic or rescue shelter,
forced disappearances, and brainwashing classes,
which all make up for the functions of a labor camp.
All these methods and places are ready for people
who are in the forced labor camps right now.
