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Beijing Declines to Say How It Will Guarantee Press Freedom During 2022 Winter Olympics China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs failed to provide specifics during its regular press briefing on March 2 about its promise of complete media freedom for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Following a report released by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC), which indicated a “rapid decline in media freedom” in China, based on 150 responses to a survey of correspondents and interviews with bureau chiefs, a reporter from ZDF television at the briefing asked: “How do you res...

Meanwhile, the Chinese government has confirmed the detention of Haze Fan, a Chinese citizen working for Bloomberg News as a news assistant, on suspicion of endangering national security. “As far as I know, Chinese national Fan is suspected of engaging in criminal activities that endanger the national security of China, and has recently been taken under compulsory measures by the Beijing National Security Bureau according to law,” [Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin] told reporters at a daily briefing. “The case is currently under investigation in accordance with law,” Wang sa...

CPJ reports record number of journalists jailed worldwide in 2020 8 minute read An Oregon State Trooper arrests journalist Gabriel Trumbly during a crowd dispersal near the Portland east police precinct, Portland, Oregon, U.S., 30 August 2020, Nathan Howard/Getty Images At least 274 journalists were in jail in relation to their work on 1 December 2020. China was the world’s worst jailer for the second year in a row. It was followed by Turkey, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 15 December 2020. Th...

“This marks the fifth consecutive year that repressive governments have imprisoned at least 250 journalists,” said Elana Beiser, CPJ’s editorial director and author of the report. She cited a “lack of global leadership on democratic values — particularly from the United States, where President Donald Trump has inexhaustibly denigrated the press and cozied up to dictators such as Egyptian President Abdelfattah el-Sisi” that has exacerbated the “crisis” of free speech. Governments attempted to delay journalists’ trials and limited access to visitors this year, and at least two...