Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Chinese Government on ensuring protection for bloggers and writers exercising freedom of expression.

We remain concerned by the increasing restrictions to media freedoms in China and continue to urge the Chinese authorities to respect and protect freedom of expression and association.

We raised this issue with the Chinese authorities at the UK-China Human Rights Dialogue, which was held in Beijing on 27 June, where we expressed concerns about the treatment of journalists and censorship. Ahead of this meeting we raised the cases of the bloggers Druklo (also known as Shokjang) and Wu Gan (also known as "Super Vulgar Butcher") and the writers Hu Shigen, Lu Gengsong and Yang Maodong in writing with the Chinese authorities​.