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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) released
the 2014 report of press freedom in Mainland China,
Hong Kong and Macau.
According to the report, the Communist regime has adopted
more repressive measures.
Critics believe it is related to the great sense of crisis
within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
IFJ's seventh annual China Press Freedom Report indicated
that, direct censorship, internet surveillance, harassment
and intimidation are continuing to take place in China.
Further online restrictions in 2014 saw 2200 websites forced
to shut down.
An additional 300 video channels were also forced offline.
On social platforms such as WeChat, at least 20 million
messages were deleted, said IFJ.
Former Shaanxi TV reporter Ma Xiaoming says that
journalists who dare to touch on sensitive issues of the CCP
are being brutally suppressed, imprisoned and even killed.
Ma himself has experienced frequent suppressions
due to his reports of rights defending activities in China,
uncovering forced acquisition and demolition by local
government, and exposing capricious abuse of power
by the CCP legal systems.
Ma Xiaoming: "I have reported on these issues
for more than ten years.
I have been beaten more than once.
I was jailed, my camera was confiscated, my negatives
were exposed and confiscated.
Interrogation, detention, and labor camp are frequent;
especially during the two sessions, the Cold Food Festival,
the Tiananmen Massacre, and etc.,
I would be restricted of freedom."
Ma Xiaoming explains that he has recently been suppressed
again during a local fund-raising fraud report.
Ma Xiaoming: "On Dec. 31, 2014, thousands of the
victims of fraud petitioned to the provincial government.
During the chaos, an elderly fell. We all went to the elderly
but the police caught me and detained me for an hour.
They did not release me until my photos were deleted."
The Committee to Protect Journalists reported
on Dec. 17, 2014 that China is world's worst jailer of the press.
Beijing has also issued more restrictive rules
to international journalists.
During the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong that began in
late September the IFJ noted at least 39 incidents in which
journalists were harassed, assaulted, detained or maliciously
accused by Hong Kong police and anti-Occupy Movement protesters.
A Hong Kong journalist said that interference from Beijing
was "raw and undisguised" with officials based in Hong Kong
putting pressure on reporters during the protests,
and "Most of the media did not offer resistance...
the Hong Kong media have already half-knelt."
Freelance writer Zhu Xinxin analyzes the even more severe
crackdown on the free press is highly related to CCP's
sense of crisis.
Zhu Xinxin: "Whenever its crisis is deepened,
it is certainly further tightening the conditions.
It fears the idea of free press and the expression of views.
When people reach consensus via exchange of ideas
and minds, it frightens the CCP that it could transform
into concrete actions."
Zhu Xinxin says that Hong Kong's occupy movement is a great
shock to the problematic Chinese society.
This democratic movement is a huge threat to the CCP.
According to PEN American Center's report,
Hong Kong's press freedom is increasingly insecure
due to physical violence against journalists
and cyber attacks against online media.
On the morning of Jan. 12, Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai
was targeted by unidentified attackers on Monday,
with petrol bombs at his residence and the office
of the newspaper he founded, Apple Daily.
In February of 2014, the former chief editor of Ming Pao
newspaper, Kevin Lau was shockingly attacked
by unidentified attackers with a cleaver.
The IFJ reminds the business sectors of the Mainland
and Hong Kong that a free and independent press
plays an important role in the business environment.
The IFJ said, "Press freedom is a human right and the media
must be able to perform their professional duties
without fear and intimidation."
《神韵》2015世界巡演新亮点
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