FCCC Statement: Intimidation of Journalist

The FCCC is deeply concerned by the attempts to intimidate one of our members following publication of an article related to terrorism and Xinjiang. The correspondent of L’Obs, Ursula Gauthier, has been the subject of two inflammatory editorials in the Global Times,...

Die Zeit Journalist

Some of you will have already seen the account written by FCCC member Angela Koeckritz from Die Zeit of the continued detention of her assistant Zhang Miao and of her own repeated and prolonged interrogation by the police which eventually led to Angela choosing to...

FCCC protests detention of news assistant

The FCCC is alarmed and deeply concerned by reports that Xin Jiang, a Chinese news assistant employed by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, has been detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after having been held incommunicado by police for...

Foreign Correspondents Club of China Year-end Statement

Reviewing the conditions under which foreign reporters work in China, the FCCC is disturbed to note a number of negative trends over the past year. –  In particular, we have found that the Chinese authorities are increasingly using the denial of visas, or delays...