This means that the French journalist can not apply for visa renewal and will therefore have to leave China latest by December 31.
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If Gauthier’s credentials are not renewed by the end of year, she will become the first foreign journalist to be expelled from China since United States journalist Melissa Chan, then working at Al Jazeera in Beijing, was expelled in 2012.
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“They want a public apology for things that I have not written”, Gauthier told the Associated Press.
Ms Gauthier called the claims “ludicrous” and said Beijing was attempting to “discourage” foreign reporters in the united states.
The piece was part of a tidal wave of criticism that Gauthier said led to death threats against her from angry readers.
“Chinese society has very few freedoms, so if it takes away freedom of opinion, of expression and freedom of press, than I am afraid we are going back, way back to a period of Chinese history that we all thought is over”, she said.
China’s foreign ministry on Saturday confirmed that China has refused to renew the press credentials of Gauthier.
“France would like to remind how important it is for journalists to be able to work everywhere in the world”, the statement read.
The Foreign Correspondents Club of China, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the French Embassy in Beijing, have all expressed concern about the case.
In November, following the article, the state-controlled Global Times and China Daily newspapers ran scathing editorials accusing Gauthier of “bias”.
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.
An Weixing, head of the Public Security Ministry’s counter-terrorism division, said China faced a serious threat from terrorists, especially “East Turkestan” forces, China’s general term for Islamists separatists it says operate in Xinjiang. Before the Paris attacks, only foreign news organizations had written about the mine attack.
Recently, Xinjiang has been home to violent clashes between two ethnic groups. She predicted that the attacks were carried out over what the Uighurs perceived as mistreatment, injustice and exploitation.
Security has gradually heightened in the Xinjiang region due to rising ethnic-based violence.
There has been long history of discord between China’s Uighur community and the authorities.
He also referred to similar requirements in US laws that ask companies to provide technical assistance to investigators, and urged the U.S.to refrain from using “double standards”, Bloomberg reported.
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The Foreign Ministry later blasted Gauthier for “hurting Chinese people’s feelings with wrong and hateful actions and words”.
