n907  2249  13 Apr 79
 
BC-Papers 04-14
Editors:
Following is from the London Telegraph Foreign Service.
It is for use only in the United States and Canada.
By NIGEL WADE
Daily Telegraph, London
    PEKING - Three unofficial newspapers published over recent
months by free-speech campaigners in Peking have been
officially condemned as counter-revolutionary.
    They are the ''April Fifth Tribune,'' ''Exploration,''
and ''Chinese Human Rights.''
    Several writers involved with the papers are known to
have been arrested recently following a proclamation
banning criticism of the Communist system.
    Chinese sources, quoting a restricted-circulation government
newspaper called ''Reference Materials,'' say the Peking
police have temporarily suspended judgment on two less
controversial unofficial publications ''Today'' and
''Peking Spring.''
    The unofficial papers have appeared irregularly, a few
hundred copies at a time. Thousands of people have read
copies stuck on Peking's ''Democracy Wall'' and some copies
have reached other cities.
    Contents range from challenging articles about human
rights and democracy to short stories, snippets of foreign news,
and poems.
    Publishers of the papers always claimed to be within
their constitutional rights and denied that their activities
were ''underground.''
rr    (Endit Wade) 04-14
 
 
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