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Daily Archives: September 19, 2009
Assault On Kyodo Reporters Is Reprehensible
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China strongly condemns the assault by unidentified people on three reporters working for Japan’s Kyodo News Agency. According to Kyodo, the three journalists were attacked, hit and pushed to the ground on the evening of Sept. 18. Some of their equipment was also damaged. The three were covering a rehearsal [...]
Beijing Authorities Beat Kyodo Journalists
LOCATION: Beijing TYPE OF INCIDENT: Violence, broken equipment TOPIC: Oct. 1 National Day NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Kyodo news agency/Japan The Japanese Kyodo news agency has reported that unidentified authorities in Beijing stormed the hotel room of three visiting journalists, beat them and damaged two computers. The agency says authorities stormed into the journalists’ room on Friday evening, [...]
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