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Censored
June 4
Chito Romana, ABC News, HARASSED, CENSORED
Richard Tullis, ABC News, HARASSED, CENSORED
Beijing Security Police detained ABC News producer Romana and cameraman Tullis as they drove around Beijing University, filming the campus. Romana and Tullis, who were held for two hours, were forced to erase the footage they had shot. The detention of the television journalists came on the seventh anniversary of the military assault on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. The demonstrations began in the Beijing University area.
July 8
Voice of Tibet (VOT), CENSORED
Chinese authorities began jamming VOT, an exiled Tibetan radio station produced in Oslo and broadcast from the Seychelles since May 14. China Radio International began occupying VOT's bandwidth with Easy FM, an English-language music service. China Radio International until July 8 had been a domestic service and had never broadcast on a short-wave frequency. To avoid the jamming, VOT July 22 started transmitting on a different short-wave frequency, and since then authorities have not attempted to disrupt the service again. Easy FM continues to be broadcast on the old VOT frequency.
Late August
CNN, CENSORED
The Washington Post, CENSORED
The New York Times, CENSORED
Wall Street Journal, CENSORED
Los Angeles Times, CENSORED
Voice of America, CENSORED
Time, CENSORED
Ming Pao, CENSORED
China Digest News, CENSORED
Chinese authorities blocked access to a number of Internet sites run by Chinese- and English-language media organizations. Among those affected were Internet sites operated by CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Voice of America, and Time magazine. Several Chinese-language news sites run from outside China, including China Digest News and the Hong Kong-based daily newspaper Ming Pao, have also been screened out. These moves followed a government announcement in February that laws against pornography, social disturbances, and state security breaches applied to the Internet, and that all Internet servers must operate through the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, which controls China's two gateways to the Internet.
For more information contact asiaweb@cpj.org