2012 FCCC Membership Survey Highlights

(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...

Visa Threats

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...