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Hello, I`m Fionnuala Sweeney in London. Welcome to CNN`s INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENTS, where we examine how the media are covering the big stories. We begin this week in China, a country now in the final countdown to the 2008 Olympic Games. The world`s attention turned to Tiananmen Square, as a glittering ceremony was held to mark exactly one year until competition begins. (INAUDIBLE) separations are regarded as the most intensive (INAUDIBLE) for any games in Olympic history, as it continues to face criticism on issues such as pollution, food safety, human rights, and press freedom. Concerns prompted a protest by journalists group Reporters Without Borders at the headquarters of the Beijing Olympic Planning Committee. Protestors unfurled posters depicting the Olympic rings made from handcuffs. The group says China continues to restrict press freedoms, despite pledges to liberalize during its bid to stage the games. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VINCENT BROSSEL, REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: We are not against the games. We are supporting the idea that the games must be free, fair, and a good opportunity to improve the human rights situation in China. (END VIDEO CLIP) SWEENEY: Despite the criticism, Olympic organizers say regulations introduced at the start of the year to ease reporting restrictions for foreign journalists had been well received. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JIANA XINOYU, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, BOCOG: We welcome more constructive criticism on faults and problems of our work from the media. (END VIDEO CLIP) SWEENEY: The concerns of the Paris based Reporters Without Borders are echoed by the Committee to Protect Journalists. It says China`s poor press freedom landscape could hinder visiting reporters and could also have a lasting negative effect on local journalists once the international spotlight has faded. The group is also calling for the release of 29 Chinese journalists jailed for divulging state secrets. Well, to discuss this further, I`m joined from Beijing by Bob Deitz, the Asia program coordinator with the CPJ. And here in the studio is Simon Long, the Asia editor with “The Economist.” Bob Deitz, your experience being in Beijing at the moment following this great launch for a year countdown to the Olympics. Any sense that press freedoms on the street are any different to what they might have been before? BOB DEITZ, COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: No, I don`t think there`s been any significant change at all, Fionnuala. For foreign journalists, some restrictions have been lifted. But in fact, they hadn`t been applied to journalists for a long time. There were restrictions on freedom to travel throughout the country and interviewing people. Those restrictions were listed in January. But really, they have been largely ignored. And as for local Chinese journalists, I think we`re continuing to see the same amount of pressure, and actually more pressure, coming on them that we`ve seen from the government of Hu Jin Tao since they came to power several years ago. SWEENEY: What kind of pressures on local Chinese journalists? DEITZ: Well, the obvious pressure is jailing. But most of the pressure that people face here is much more subtle than that. There is an increasing elaborate apparatus for censorship that works from the top down. More : edition.cnn.com |
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