China’s whistle-blower blogger Cui Yongyuan appears, then disappears, a week after judge names him in missing documents scandal
- Former television star has been silent on social media since he was unexpectedly implicated in disappearance of documents from a Supreme Court judge’s office
- Speculation persists whether Cui will be held responsible for his role in the affair
Celebrity blogger and prominent former television host Cui Yongyuan briefly reappeared on China’s social media network on Friday, a week after he was named by a disgraced Supreme Court judge for allegedly helping him to lie about the disappearance of legal documents in a property dispute.
Cui, who helped found the Oral History Research Centre of Communications University of China, posted brief comments on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like service, about the start of the new term.
The university also published a press release saying Cui had given a presentation during a visit to the centre by the university’s Communist Party secretary on Thursday.
However, both the Weibo post and the press release were deleted by Friday afternoon.
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