China restricts freedom of the press even more radical than previously. Foreign journalists must obtain an official permit in the future before they go into the country to research. The police threatened dozens of correspondents with detention and deportation. Beijing - Press freedom in China has suffered tremendously over the past few days, governance can be selectively shut out journalists who want to speak of the "Jasmine protests" on Arab models.
At many public places in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai are allowed to work no more foreign journalists. Now the possibility of independent reporting reduced even more: Before they go about their work in China, journalists must obtain permission from local authorities in future. The correspondent was told in dozens of teaching and interrogations at the police department, reported the Association of Foreign Correspondents (FCCC) this Thursday.
Police officials had threatened journalists with arrest and expulsion if they did not comply. Contrary to the existing rules that, for interviews, only the consent of the interviewee is necessary, it must now also provide the responsible respectively for the public square or the residential area authority for permission.
"Journalists were told that the requirement to obtain a permit before they report in public places, relates to the whole of China," said FCCC. European diplomats were "seriously concerned about the intimidation." The Arab revolution fueled by the "Jasmine protests in China had led within a few days to a drastic worsening repression for reporters.
Dozens of journalists were summoned to Beijing and Shanghai by the police to report. Security forces had deliberately driven Rapporteur of protest sites. Many journalists were accused of having failed with their first appearance at the planned site of protests against Chinese regulations, despite the tightening had been communicated only in hindsight.
In case of recurrence they were "consequences" threatened, "including detention until the visa or work permit is deleted, the FCCC. "The escalation of censorship" The blows against foreign journalists in Beijing had raised international outrage. The EU condemned the "physical violence, intimidation and arrests without explanation," U.S.
Ambassador Jon Huntsman spoke of "illegal detention": "This type of harassment and intimidation is unacceptable and very disturbing." Even human rights groups criticized the "massive suppression" of Chinese state power. Civil rights were moving in a "hostile and dangerous environment," reported Thursday the Hong Kong-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders Organisation (CHRD) in its annual report.
Activists were "routinely the target of arbitrary arrests, torture and forced disappearances." Last year, the organization documented 3544 arbitrary detention, 118 cases of torture and 36 forced disappearances. "The regime responded again with a new wave of massive repression, which is aimed at those activists who, after a" call "jasmine revolution," said Renee Xia CHRD director.
"The international community must do more." The situation has worsened since the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in October for the imprisoned civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo. The US-based organization Human Rights Watch criticized the violence against foreign journalists in Beijing on Sunday and spoke of an "escalation of censorship." The intimidation of correspondents must have an end.
They would also have the violent incidents are investigated.
At many public places in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai are allowed to work no more foreign journalists. Now the possibility of independent reporting reduced even more: Before they go about their work in China, journalists must obtain permission from local authorities in future. The correspondent was told in dozens of teaching and interrogations at the police department, reported the Association of Foreign Correspondents (FCCC) this Thursday.
Police officials had threatened journalists with arrest and expulsion if they did not comply. Contrary to the existing rules that, for interviews, only the consent of the interviewee is necessary, it must now also provide the responsible respectively for the public square or the residential area authority for permission.
"Journalists were told that the requirement to obtain a permit before they report in public places, relates to the whole of China," said FCCC. European diplomats were "seriously concerned about the intimidation." The Arab revolution fueled by the "Jasmine protests in China had led within a few days to a drastic worsening repression for reporters.
Dozens of journalists were summoned to Beijing and Shanghai by the police to report. Security forces had deliberately driven Rapporteur of protest sites. Many journalists were accused of having failed with their first appearance at the planned site of protests against Chinese regulations, despite the tightening had been communicated only in hindsight.
In case of recurrence they were "consequences" threatened, "including detention until the visa or work permit is deleted, the FCCC. "The escalation of censorship" The blows against foreign journalists in Beijing had raised international outrage. The EU condemned the "physical violence, intimidation and arrests without explanation," U.S.
Ambassador Jon Huntsman spoke of "illegal detention": "This type of harassment and intimidation is unacceptable and very disturbing." Even human rights groups criticized the "massive suppression" of Chinese state power. Civil rights were moving in a "hostile and dangerous environment," reported Thursday the Hong Kong-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders Organisation (CHRD) in its annual report.
Activists were "routinely the target of arbitrary arrests, torture and forced disappearances." Last year, the organization documented 3544 arbitrary detention, 118 cases of torture and 36 forced disappearances. "The regime responded again with a new wave of massive repression, which is aimed at those activists who, after a" call "jasmine revolution," said Renee Xia CHRD director.
"The international community must do more." The situation has worsened since the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in October for the imprisoned civil rights activist Liu Xiaobo. The US-based organization Human Rights Watch criticized the violence against foreign journalists in Beijing on Sunday and spoke of an "escalation of censorship." The intimidation of correspondents must have an end.
They would also have the violent incidents are investigated.
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