China’s Foreign Minister Just Flipped Out at a Canadian Reporter for Asking About Human Rights
Leo Timm | Epoch Times Questions about human rights are “irresponsible,” “full of prejudice,” and “totally unacceptable,” said Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi in a vehement rebuke of a Canadian reporter who dared raise the issue at a June 2 event held at the headquarters of Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa. “It is the Chinese people who are […]
Beijing-Based French Reporter Told she Must Leave China
<!–[CDATA[ RSF – Reporters Without Borders The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organization condemns the Chinese government’s “arbitrary expulsion” of Beijing-based French journalist Ursula Gauthier and China’s attitude to the media in general. The correspondent of the French news weekly L’Obs, Gauthier has been told that her visa is not being renewed because of a story last […]
China Holds Top Reporter on 'State Secrets' Charges
<!–[CDATA[Qiao Long | Radio Free Asia Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi are holding a top investigative journalist on suspicion of “obtaining state secrets,” his newspaper has reported. Liu Wei, a journalist for the cutting-edge Guangzhou-based Southern Metropolis Daily, was placed under criminal detention on Oct. 9 by Jiangxi’s Pingxiang municipal police department, […]