This article by Iris Hsu, CPJ China Correspondent. Here is an excerpt from CPJ:
On January 31, 2022, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) released findings from its annual member survey about press conditions in the country. The report, “Locked Down or Kicked Out,” found that 99% of foreign correspondents said China’s reporting conditions did not meet what they considered “international standards.”
The survey also documented ways Chinese authorities intimidated foreign journalists in 2021, including legal actions, creating labor shortages for foreign media organizations by refusing to issue new visas, restricting journalists’ mobility under the guise of pandemic measures, and backing online trolling campaigns.
The report also found that Hong Kong, a city where journalists could once report without fear of retaliation, is no longer an appealing relocation option after the 2020 enactment of the national security law in the city, followed by authorities’ expulsions of foreign members of the press and arrests of local journalists.
The full report can be found here.
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