“Difficult for reporters and activists in China,”
“the working environment has become tougher for activists and lawyers in China, with numerous arrests and prison sentences.”
“foreign journalists testify that it has become harder to do its job.”
“During Tuesday sentenced Liu Feiyue, who founded the site msguancha.com, to five years in prison by a court in Hubei province to have turned against the government. He was arrested at the end of 2016 since the site had information on the corruption in the state apparatus, polisövergrepp and the violation of human rights. The court also ordered that the equivalent of just over 1.3 million of Liu’s assets to be seized.”
“– I really can’t understand it. All Liu Feiyue has done is to provide a web page where internet users can write about social issues and inequality, ” says his mother, Ding Qihua.”
“After he came to power in 2012, China’s president Xi Jinping set out tougher measures against everything that is deemed to threaten the communist party’s power. Many human rights activists and lawyers have had a taste of it.”
“On Monday, it emerged that the human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang was sentenced to 4.5 years of imprisonment in China after a major crackdown against lawyers three years ago. The EU requires that he and other lawyers be released immediately.”
“Now also shows a survey of 109 foreign journalists, the association of correspondents in China have made to their working environment has become tougher. Detention, bureaucratic red tape and suspicion of phone tapping are among the problems. Almost half of the respondents say that they have been subjected to people monitored their movements in the last year, while more than nine out of ten are concerned about phone security.”
“The troubled western province of Xinjiang, where uighurs and other muslim minorities, are particularly svårjobbad. 14 correspondents say they have been physically prevented from getting to the public places in the province, while 23 said that they have been subjected to disturbances that are forced to delete the images or data in computers, and got interviews canceled.”
“Nathan VanderKlippe, who works for the canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, says that he several times detained against their will during a trip in Xinjiang, and armed police all the time keeping my eyes on him.”
” I was followed and tracked in close to 1 600 kilometres of at least nine cars and 20 people.”
