China is biggest captor of journalists, says report

[aziqbal]

China is biggest captor of journalists, says report
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Zhang Zhan was named in the report as one of the journalists detained in China
A new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says China is "the world's biggest captor of journalists" with at least 127 reporters currently detained.
It said China was conducting an "unprecedented campaign of repression" worldwide against journalism.
China has justified the arrests of reporters and citizen journalists by accusing them of provoking trouble.
RSF also noted that press restrictions had worsened with the pandemic.
At least 10 journalists and online commentators have been detained for reporting about the Covid-19 crisis in Wuhan.
One of them, former lawyer Zhang Zhan, had initially travelled to Wuhan in February 2020 after reading an online post by a resident about life in the city during the outbreak.
Once there, she began documenting what she saw on the streets and hospitals in livestreams and essays, despite threats by authorities, and her reports were widely shared on social media.
She was later found guilty of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" - a charge that is commonly levelled against activists and whistleblowers seen as undermining the government's efforts to control information in the country.
The advocacy group's 42-page report also listed how Chinese authorities used the fight against terrorism as a pretext to detain Uyghur journalists reporting on Xinjiang.
China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity against what it sees as Islamists and separatists in the majority-Uyghur region.
The report said other methods used included: using its overseas diplomatic missions to attack journalists; media blockades; censorship of topics; forcing local journalists to study Communist Party ideology and download a propaganda application on their phones; and expelling or intimidating journalists.
The BBC's John Sudworth left Beijing for Taipei in April following pressure and threats from the Chinese authorities for his reporting of China's treatment of the Uyghurs.
China also revoked the company's license to broadcast within the country in February.
A member of Bloomberg News' bureau in Beijing, Haze Fan, has also been detained since late 2020, with no information forthcoming on her case.
She was last seen being escorted from her apartment building by plainclothes officials on what Chinese authorities allege were suspicion of national security law violations.
RSF ranks China 177th out of 180 in the 2021 World Press Freedom Index, just two places above North Korea.

China is biggest captor of journalists, says report

Advocacy group Reporters Without Borders said at least 127 journalists are currently detained.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[vi-va]

Journalists today are very cheap products. Some of the so-called journalists are much cheaper to be bought than whores on the street.

The difference between the above two are:

1. The whores don't tag themselves as intellectuals, there are some sincere in it. At least the guest got what they paid for.
2. While the so-called journalists tag themselves as intellectuals, while they are as annoying as flies. They scream, they cry, they pretend to be victims, they blackmail the government, hijack political agendas.
3. Usually, those so-called journalists are very ugly inside and outside too.

They do have something in common:
As long as paid well, they do anything you wanted.


No offense to real journalists. But those scums in HK are not journalist at all. They are on the CIA pay roll.

A real journalists should have conscience, instead of selling them to evils.

BBC = Fake news Factory

 

[Maula Jatt]

Damn op is obssesed with China man

 

[VFY]

Damn op is obssesed with China man

Obviously he's a paid troll but not a very good one.

 

[aziqbal]

Journalists today are very cheap products. Some of the so-called journalists are much cheaper to be bought than whores on the street.

The difference between the above two are:

1. The whores don't tag themselves as intellectuals, there are some sincere in it. At least the guest got what they paid for.
2. While the so-called journalists tag themselves as intellectuals, while they are as annoying as flies. They scream, they cry, they pretend to be victims, they blackmail the government, hijack political agendas.
3. Usually, those so-called journalists are very ugly inside and outside too.

They do have something in common:
As long as paid well, they do anything you wanted.


No offense to real journalists. But those scums in HK are not journalist at all. They are on the CIA pay roll.

A real journalists should have conscience, instead of selling them to evils.

BBC = Fake news Factory

but HK journalist wasn't paid by BBC ?

Apple Daily was a HK based free and democratic news outlet ?

 

[Beast]

but HK journalist wasn't paid by BBC ?

Apple Daily was a HK based free and democratic news outlet ?

Who told you that? Their bank account is tracked and link to CIA agent paying them large amount of fund.

S for S speaks on arrest operation by Hong Kong Police's National Security Department (with video)

Following is the transcript of remarks by the Secretary for Security, Mr John Lee, at a media session at Central Government Offices, Tamar, today (June 17): Reporter: First,...

www.info.gov.hk

 

[aziqbal]

Who told you that? Their bank account is tracked and link to CIA agent paying them large amount of fund.

there is no proof of that all fake Chinese accusations which have not been proved in a independent court of law

does China even have a independent judiciary system ?

 

[Daniel808]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1469556927763869697

https://twitter.com/x/status/1469489960285732865

#FreeAssange #Freedom of Press

 

[ZeEa5KPul]

Journalists today are very cheap products. Some of the so-called journalists are much cheaper to be bought than whores on the street.

The difference between the above two are:

1. The whores don't tag themselves as intellectuals, there are some sincere in it. At least the guest got what they paid for.
2. While the so-called journalists tag themselves as intellectuals, while they are as annoying as flies. They scream, they cry, they pretend to be victims, they blackmail the government, hijack political agendas.
3. Usually, those so-called journalists are very ugly inside and outside too.

They do have something in common:
As long as paid well, they do anything you wanted.


No offense to real journalists. But those scums in HK are not journalist at all. They are on the CIA pay roll.

A real journalists should have conscience, instead of selling them to evils.

BBC = Fake news Factory

Please don't insult prostitutes by comparing them to journalists.

 

[beijingwalker]

 

[mudas777]

but HK journalist wasn't paid by BBC ?

Apple Daily was a HK based free and democratic news outlet ?

On the CIA payroll.

 

[faithfulguy]

“Is Julianne Assange detained by China through its rendition program?”

US Podcaster

On the CIA payroll.

CIA is in the payroll of military industrial complex.

 

[mudas777]

“Is Julianne Assange detained by China through its rendition program?”

US Podcaster


CIA is in the payroll of military industrial complex.

CIA have got budget of their own but they do have got budgets for black ops too, where brief cases full of dollars are delivered. Funding for them can be declared and on undeclared behind the scenes too.
Stuffed suitcases, brief cases and black bags are the one which are bringing chaos in the 3rd world. Corrupt mafia and politicians gets their off shores accounts filled through other means.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

A new report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says

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BBC = Fake news Factory

Can we shoot the original source and not the usual dumb slamming of the quoting messenger please...

Original Reporters Without Borders story picked up by the BBC.

An unprecedented RSF investigation: The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China

Two years after China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publishes The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China, a report revealing the extent of the regime's campaign of repression against the right to information.

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Two years after China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) publishes The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China, a report revealing the extent of the regime's campaign of repression against the right to information.

Published a year before the Chinese Communist Party's 20th National Congress, which will take place at the end of December 2022, The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China is a damning 82-page document that demonstrates the acceleration of China’s violations against its own international commitments to freedom of opinion and expression. The report, released on 7 December 2021, reveals the unprecedented campaign of repression led by the Chinese regime in recent years against journalism and the right to information worldwide.

“If China continues its frantic race backwards, Chinese citizens may lose hope to one day see press freedom established in their country, and the Beijing regime may succeed in imposing its anti-model domestically and abroad,” says the RSF Secretary General, Christophe Deloire, who calls on democracies to “identify all appropriate strategies to dissuade the Beijing regime from pursuing its repressive policies and to support all Chinese citizens who love their country and want to defend the right to information”.

The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China

Ten key points:

• Journalists forced to be the Party’s mouthpiece

To receive and renew their press cards, journalists will soon have to undergo a 90-hour annual training partly focusing on Xi Jinping’s “Thought”. Journalists are already required to download the Study Xi, Strengthen the Country propaganda application that can collect their personal data.

• The world’s biggest captor of journalists

At least 127 journalists (professional and non-professional) are currently detained by the regime. The simple act of investigating a “sensitive” topic or publishing censored information can result in years of detention in unsanitary prisons, where ill-treatment can lead to death.

• Foreign correspondents unwelcome

China’s intimidation of foreign reporters, based on surveillance and visa blackmail, forced 18 of them to leave the country in 2020.
Gui Minhai, Yang Hengjun and Cheng Lei, three foreign journalists of Chinese descent, are now being detained on espionage charges.

• Covid-19 as an excuse for increased repression

At least ten journalists and online commentators were arrested in 2020 for the simple act of informing the public about the Covid-19 crisis in Wuhan. To this date, two of them, Zhang Zhan and Fang Bin, are still detained.

• Media blockade in Xinjiang

Since 2016, in the name of the "fight against terrorism", the Beijing regime has been conducting a violent campaign against the Uyghurs. Seventy-one Uyghur journalists are currently detained, comprising more than half of the journalists imprisoned in China.

• Proliferation of the “Red Lines”

The number of taboo topics keeps rising. Not only those typically deemed “sensitive” – such as Tibet, Taiwan or corruption – are subject to censorship, but also natural disasters, the #MeToo movement or even recognition of health professionals during the Covid-19 crisis.

• Hong Kong journalists endangered by the National Security Law

Deliberately vague, the National Security Law, imposed last year in Hong Kong by China, has since served as a pretext for the repression of at least 12 journalists and press freedom defenders, including Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai, all of whom risk life sentences.

• Carrie Lam as a puppet of the Beijing regime

In order to please the Chinese regime, Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive, forcibly closed the last independent mainstream media, Apple Daily, and is censoring public media group RTHK (Radio Television Hong Kong).

• CGTN continues to spread propaganda around the world

Chinese state-owned audiovisual group CGTN continues to broadcast regime propaganda worldwide, despite losing its licence in the United Kingdom in 2021 after airing multiple self-confessions, including those of publisher Gui Minhai and ex-journalist
Peter Humphrey.

• Embassies used as a tool against freedom of information

Chinese diplomatic missions are also a source of pressure against information freedom in democracies. Infamous for his diatribes against the media, China’s ambassador in Paris, Lu Shaye, is a repeat offender who regularly insults and attacks independent journalists.



In a previous report, published in 2019 and entitled China's Pursuit of a New World Media Order, RSF demonstrated how Beijing tries to put an end to the role of journalism and instead make it a tool at the service of state propaganda.



The People's Republic of China ranks 177th out of 180 in the 2021 RSF World Press Freedom Index, only two spots above North Korea. The special administrative region of Hong Kong, once a bastion of press freedom, has slipped from 18th place, upon the index’s creation in 2002, to 80th place in 2021.



All other language versions of the report will be available on 24th January, 2022, ten days before the opening of the Winter Olympic Games in China (Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and German).

READ THE FULL REPORT

 

[beijingwalker]

We all know how western media turned against China after Trump took over, everyone who is not blind can easily see it.