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Daily Archives: August 1, 2007
China Yet To Fulfill Olympic Pledge Of Free Media Coverage
A year before the start of the 2008 Summer Games, a new survey of foreign correspondents in China shows that many feel the government has not yet met its Olympic pledge to give them complete freedom to report. Harassment of foreign reporters is common, despite improvements in some areas. Forty percent of 163 respondents in [...]
French Journalist Followed, Sources Intimidated in Xinjiang
During a reporting trip to Xinjiang, the Muslim Uighur region in China’s far west, reporter Brice Pedroletti of France’s Le Monde newspaper was followed and searched, and his sources were intimidated. Pedroletti visited the apartment of the daughter of exiled human rights advocate Rebiya Kadeer. The family told him it was not “convenient” to talk. [...]
Tags: Xinjiang
