自由作家，著名人权记者高瑜女士简介

2009年11月，高瑜与捷克前总统哈维尔在布拉格。

 

高瑜,一九四四年出生于重庆，毕业于中国人民大学语言文学系文艺理论专业。

80年代在中国新闻社专稿部任记者，是香港中文报刊著名专栏作家.

1988年10月调到经济学周报担任副总编辑。因参加和报道1989年北京民主运动，6月3日早被北京安全局抓捕。高瑜一九八八年对严家其和温元凯的一篇采访，被当局定为“动乱暴乱政治纲领”，刊登这篇报道的《经济学周报》因此被查封。高瑜被关押15个月。

1993年9月23日北京申办2000年奥运会没有成功，江泽民政府为向西方表示强硬立场，于10月2日在高瑜赴哥伦比亚大学新闻研究生院做访问学者的前两天，再次将她抓捕，后以“泄露国家秘密罪”判有期徒刑六年，剥夺政治权利 一年。成为江泽民政府与西方打“人质牌”的重要人物。

高瑜服刑中拒不认罪，服刑5年4个半月，在朱镕基访美前夕，被中国政府以“保外就医”名义提前释放。

出狱后高瑜以自由记者身份继续从事中国新闻报道，作品广有影响，以广阔的思想视野和深刻的批判力量获得世界荣誉。        

 

1993 获赫尔曼 哈密特人权奖，

1995年5月，获国际报业发行人协会在法国巴黎颁发的“自由金笔奖” *；

1995年11月6日，首次获国际妇女传媒基金会颁发的“新闻勇气奖” *；

1997年5月3日，获得联合国教科文组织颁发的首届吉耶尔莫．卡诺新闻自由奖*；

2000 年 5 月，获日内瓦颁发的20世纪1950年——2000年全球50名新闻自由英雄奖；

2006年6月，因独立中文笔会推荐，再度获国际妇女传媒基金会颁发的“新闻勇气奖”，是世界唯一两次获得此项荣誉的女记者。

（注：*高瑜尚在狱中） 

                                                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  2008年高瑜瑞典参加世界报业协会的大会

 

 

 

 

1989年高瑜在天安门广场

 

 

高瑜的著作封面

英文简介

Brief Biography of Gao Yu

Gao Yu, a Chinese journalist, was born in Chongqing City in 1944. She graduated in Literary Theory at the Department of Linguistics and Literature, China’s People University in Beijing. Her career started in 1979, as a reporter for the China News Service, and became a well-known columnist of Chinese press in Hong Kong in 1980s. In October 1988, she entered the Economics Weekly in Beijing as its deputy chief editor. In December 1988, she published an article both in the Economics Weekly and Hong Kong’s Mirror Monthly, which, after Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, was labeled by Beijing authority as a “political program for turmoil and rebellion” and so the Economics Weekly was closed down. For this article as well as her participation in and reports on the protests, she was arrested by Beijing National Security Bureau on 3^rd of June 1989 and then detained for 15 months.

On 23^rd of September 1993, Beijing failed to be awarded to host the Olympic Games in 2000, she was arrested again on 2^nd of October, two days before she was leaving for USA as a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University. Then, she was sentenced to six years imprisonment and one year deprivation of political rights for “leaking state secrets”. She refused to plead guilty while serving her sentence for five years and four and half months in prison until her release on “medical parole” in February 1999, just before Primer Zhu Rongji was to visit USA.

Since her release, Gao Yu has been continuing her engagement in China’s news press as a freelance journalist. Her works have been widely influential, with a broad ideological vision and profound critical power that has won her the international reputation

Human Rights Watch's Hellman/Hammett Grant in 1993

In May 1995, she was honored WAN’s Golden Pen of Freedom Award*;

In November 1995, she was honored IWMF’s Courage Award for the first time*;

In May, 1997, she was awarded the first UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize*;

In May 2000, she was awarded one of the world's 50 press freedom heroes in 20th century (1950 – 2000) in Geneva

In June 2006, was again honored IWMF’s Courage Award, one of only two to receive this honor in the world.

(* honored when being imprisoned)