Bloomberg’s Fan released on bail in China

Haze Fan, a member of Bloomberg News’s bureau in Beijing, was released on bail, according to the Chinese embassy in Washington, more than a year after she was detained on suspicion of national security law violations, reports Madeleine Lim of Bloomberg.

Lim writes, “Fan’s case remains under investigation while she is on bail pending trial, the embassy said on its website. The statement, dated May 6, was issued in response to a World Press Freedom Day advert published in the Washington Post on May 2, which featured Fan. Bloomberg News was made aware of the embassy statement over the weekend. Bloomberg News has been unable to contact Fan.

“Fan was last seen on Dec. 7, 2020, being escorted from her apartment building by plainclothes security officials. She was formally arrested in July 2021 on suspicion of committing crimes endangering national security, the embassy said in its statement, adding that her ‘legitimate rights and interests have been fully protected.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.