Once she departs on December 31, she will become the first foreign journalist forced to leave China since 2012, when American Melissa Chan, then working for Al Jazeera in Beijing, was expelled.
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News of Gauthier’s imminent expulsion sparked outrage among colleagues and freedom of speech groups.
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Beijing supported press qualifications would not be renewed by it for Ursula Gauthier, of the French news magazine L’Obs.
“Not only in China, but also in many places internationally, growing numbers of terrorists are using the Internet to promote and incite terrorism, and are using the Internet to organize, plan and carry out terrorist acts”, another official, Li Shouwei, said Sunday.
“The FCCC views this matter as a most serious development and a grave threat to the ability of foreign correspondents to work in China”, the statement added.
Alexey Maslov, head of the School of Asian Studies at the Russian National Research University- Higher School of Economics, said Monday that after reading the counter-terrorism law he found no content infringing upon human rights.
Beijing maintains that violent unrest in Xinjiang is linked to worldwide terror groups and often accuses foreign governments – and foreign reporters – of having a “double standard” on terrorism.
Entitled “After the attacks (on Paris), Chinese solidarity is not without ulterior motives”, Gauthier s article spoke of China s anti-terrorism policies in the country s western region of Xinjiang, homeland of the Muslim Uighur ethnic minority – many of whom complain of discrimination and controls on their culture and religion. Foreign experts, however, have argued that there is no proof of foreign ties and that the violence in Xinjiang might be homegrown.
They urged her to recant and apologize; Gauthier refused. Gauthier was no longer “suitable” to work in China because she supported “terrorism and cruel acts”. Gauthier was also subjected to a series of vicious online attacks, including death threats.
An Weixing, the head of the Public Security Ministry’s counter-terrorism division, speaks at a news conference after China’s parliament passed a controversial new anti-terrorism law in Beijing, on Sunday. Gauthier declined to do so.
Be Civil – It’s OK to have a difference in opinion but there’s no need to be a jerk. Gauthier dismissed those accusations as “plain nonsense”. It is not the real issue. They want me to say that publicly.
“No institutions or individuals may fabricate or disseminate information on forged terrorist incidents, report on or disseminate details of terrorist activities that might lead to imitation, nor publish scenes of cruelty or inhumanity about terrorist activities”, the law says. “This is the problem”.
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“Everyone is basing his understanding on the analysis of one article done by the official Global Times”, she said.
