Citing a foreign ministry spokesperson, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency reported that press credentials for Ursula Gauthier, a reporter for the French magazine L’Obs, will not be renewed. Her treatment is “a pretext to intimidate foreign correspondents in China, particularly on issues concerning minorities, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang”, she added.
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According to a November 29 statement by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China, Gauthier “has been the subject of two inflammatory editorials in the [state-run] Global Times, attacking her by name”.
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“This entire situation is not just about me and my work”. The story also blamed the Chinese government’s anti-terrorism policy in Xinjiang.
If the journalist visa is not renewed, Gauthier can start an appeal from outside the country.
Gauthier: “All this is rhetoric”.
The French foreign ministry on Friday issued a terse statement in which it regretted that her visa was not renewed. “France recalls the importance of the role journalists play throughout the world”.
Beijing blames the violence on terrorism with foreign ties.
But Xinjiang’s ethnic Uighurs, most of whom are Muslim, say Beijing’s repression of their religious and cultural customs is provoking the violence. “Don’t presume to represent me – I don’t even know what happened!” wrote one user on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform.
“They told I must make a public apology for insulting the Chinese people’s feelings, otherwise my accreditation will not be prolonged”, Gauthier told RIA Novosti.
The article also criticized China’s fight against terrorism and “vilified and defamed” politics in the country, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said at a press conference in December.
By then, state media had launched an abusive and intimidating campaign against Gauthier, accusing her of having deep prejudice against China and having hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
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