Chinese Bloomberg News employee held on suspicion of endangering national security
- Haze Fan, who works for the organisation’s Beijing bureau, was last seen being escorted from a residential block on Monday
- Bloomberg editor-in-chief John Micklethwait says he is deeply concerned and organisation is doing everything it can to get her back
A news assistant from Bloomberg News was detained by Chinese authorities on suspicion of endangering national security, the news agency said on Friday.
Haze Fan, a Chinese national who works in the Beijing bureau, was seen being escorted from her apartment building by plain clothes security officials on Monday, and had last been in contact with an editor earlier that day.
Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, received confirmation on Thursday that Fan was being held on suspicion of participating in activities endangering national security after seeking information about her whereabouts from the Chinese government and Chinese embassy in Washington for four days.
“We have been doing our best to try and find out exactly where she is, what’s happened and to try and get her back,” Bloomberg News editor-in-chief John Micklethwait told the organisation’s television channel.
“Haze is a very talented person, a very respected, integral part of our newsroom, very popular, and we are deeply concerned for her well-being.”
