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Olympic Progress Marred By Intimidation
A year after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) says the relaxed reporting rules made permanent after the Games have made travel easier for foreign correspondents. However, intimidation of sources and domestic staff mar this progress toward internationally acceptable reporting conditions. While foreign correspondents are still denied access to the [...]
Results Of July Membership Survey
The FCCC received 57 responses to a July 2009 questionnaire on reporting conditions in the year following the 2008 Olympics. The results include: INCIDENTS INVOLVING CORRESPONDENTS 16 incidents of violence 16 incidents of destruction of photos or other reporting materials 100 incidents of being turned away from public spaces 75 incidents of being followed by [...]
Open Letter On Reporting Conditions In Xinjiang
Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dear Sir: In light of past problems covering large incidents like the unrest in Tibet last year, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China would like to share some of the feedback we received from our members, given the large number of journalists who traveled to Xinjiang to cover the [...]
Tags: Xinjiang
China Should Allow Reporters Free Movement In Xinjiang
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, while encouraged that journalists were allowed to report from Urumqi, is alarmed at the growing number of reporters who have been detained while trying to do their jobs. Foreign reporters have been asked to leave the city of Kashgar, and in some cases have been escorted to the airport. [...]
Tags: Xinjiang
China Must Stop Harassing Reporters In Xinjiang
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China deplores the detention and harassment of journalists attempting to cover the unrest in Xinjiang. We urge the Chinese authorities to permit the free flow of information that is essential to objective and fair reporting. Contrary to the spirit of state reporting regulations, security forces in Xinjiang have detained TV [...]
Tags: Xinjiang
