The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is dismayed that so many foreign correspondents were denied the opportunity to attend the presentation of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the new CPC Central Committee on Thursday morning. While appreciating...
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents’ Club, and the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong, are extremely concerned by a number of recent incidents in which international journalists have been threatened,...
(May 2012) pdf ONE-FOURTH OF RESPONDENTS REPORT VISA DIFFICULTIES Al-Jazeera’s Melissa Chan was expelled from China (possibly the first such case since 1998) but there were many other would-be China correspondents whose visa applications were never approved or who...
On the 4th of May around a dozen foreign correspondents were summoned to the visa department of the Public Security Bureau. Earlier that day they had been reporting in the car park of the Chaoyang Hospital where blind activist Chen Guangcheng is currently undergoing...
The Chinese authorities have set up a massive security cordon in an attempt to prevent journalists from entering Tibetan areas in Western Sichuan Province where major unrest – including killings and self-immolations – has been reported. The FCCC considers this a clear...