Note:
(a) "因为在中国创办了第一份独立报纸而被当局关押了30天." This does not sound right.
(i) www.scottsavitt.com
("In 1994 he founded Beijing Scene [北京见闻; see (b)], China's first independent weekly newspaper")
(ii) Scott Savitt, Witchhunt. Duke Chronicle, Apr 27, 2014 ("guest commentary") www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2008/04/28/witchhunt
("After graduating from Duke in 1985, I returned to China where I had studied abroad and lived and worked as a journalist there for the next 18 years. I covered the events in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and did not return to the US until I was finally put in jail for 30 days for my unwelcome reporting and then was expelled")
At the time Mr Savitt was "a visiting scholar at Duke" University. Ching-Ching Ni, The Angel and the Demon. Sun Herald (Biloxi, Mississippi), May 11, 2008.
(b) In the words of Savitt's collaborator.
张桦, 三十年河东. Jan 4, 2013.blog.ifeng.com/article/22263484.html
Read only the third (sectional heading: 被封) of the three sections.