Chinese blogger released after five months in isolation

A Chinese documentary maker and blogger has been freed after being held in isolation and without charge in China for five months. Hao Wu, who returned to China in 2004 after living in the United States for 12 years, was detained in February after interviewing a human rights lawyer while making a film about an underground Protestant church. The authorities never gave a reason for his detention. The Paris-based press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, said: "China is by far the world's biggest prison for bloggers and cyber-dissidents". (Via today.reuters.com)