Chinese editor freed after three years

A Chinese editor who was jailed after so-called "aggressive reporting" has been released three years before the end of his six-year sentence. Li Minying, a former director of the Nanfang Dushi Bao, has quietly returned to his home in Guangdong. He was arrested because his paper reported on the beating to death of a college graduate while in detention, a major embarrassment for local officials. According to the press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, he does not wish to speak to the media, probably in order to spare recriminations against Yu Huafeng, the paper's former editor, who remains in prison. (Via Boston Globe)