China increases repression against extraneous pressure: “The mayor expels the periodists from the Tiananmen massacre”

The situation of the foreign press in China will be a “significant deterrent” in 2020, informs este lunes una professional association that from the part of 18 verdrywers, multitude of pressures, pocos visados ​​concedidos and restrictions on number of covid.

“For the third year in a row, only one correspondent had declared his working conditions better”, constata el Club de Corresponsales Extranjeros en China (FCCC) en su annually inlig.

The Chinese regime expelled 2020’n 18 foreign workers working for the state diaries New York Times, Wall Street Journal y Washington Post.

Una Medal of repression against the United States that year passed expulsion to various dozens of correspondents chinos of suelo estadounidense.

Treat yourself to the “burgemeester verdrywe de periodistas extranjeros desde la epoca de la masacre de Tiananmen hace más de 30 años”, según el Club.

Como represalia, China does not send credentials to state media accreditation, which is indispensable for working.

When Chinese authorities are dissatisfied with the media coverage of a periodical, herhaal and meditative punishments.

The accreditations of at least 13 correspondents have been reduced to six months, against a year as suele becomes habitual. Between the affected media find the New York Times, la BBC, el Globe and Mail, Le Monde o la Voz de América.

Asimismo, the repression can affect the Chinese employees of the foreign media. The year passed “creciente”, with arrangements for the renovation of work permits.

A total of 59% of respondents declare that their Chinese colleagues have suffered serious intimidation in 2020 – an increase compared to 2019 (44%).

An extreme case is the Haze Fan, an agency China of the agency Bloomberg News, which has been detained since December by the “national security security agencies”.

El coronavirus, who surpassed the country in the finals of 2019, no ha mejorado las cosas.

“China has used the pandemic as a new way of controlling the periodicals”, accusa el FCCC.

The information of the account of correspondentsales amenazados, during the reports, they are sometimes kept in check or they are kept in various detection tests.

Only the authorities have been assigned in 2020 a pequeño number of visitors to the periodicals deseaban ir or regressar to China, differs from other professions which are not the object of this type of restriction.

The study was conducted in December 2020 and the year 2021. Among the 220 FCCC member periodicals, a total of 150 respondents, and a third of the foreign correspondents present in China.

(With AFP information)

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