China is “the biggest jail for journalists”, according to RSF

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on democracies to take steps to force China to change your policy of repression growing against press, and which translates, for example, into the Beijing regime being “the largest jail for journalists “ in the world, with at least 127 of them behind bars. In a report titled “The great step back of journalism in China“, RSF denounces” the unprecedented campaign carried out in recent years by the Chinese regime against journalism and the right to information throughout the world. “

Your general secretary, Christophe Deloire, it warns that if the Beijing authorities continue in that direction, “Chinese citizens run the risk of losing hope of one day seeing freedom of the press established in their country.” To avoid this, Deloire calls on democracies to identify “all strategies appropriate to dissuade the Beijing regime from continuing its repressive policies “and at the same time support the Chinese who” love their country and at the same time want to defend the Right to information”.

American boycott

This appeal comes after the United States indicated last Monday that it will not send any diplomatic representative to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in protest of human rights violations in the Asian giant.

RSF details in its report “Beijing’s strategy to control the access to information inside and outside its borders “, analyzes” the tools of the repression of journalists used by the regime “and the worsening of press freedom in Hong Kong.

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He explains that for Chinese journalists, the simple act of investigating is taboo and publishing censored information can cost them years in prison in “unhealthy prisons where mistreatment can lead to death.”

It also features the “correspondents intimidation system” based on “visa surveillance and blackmail”, which has forced 18 of them to leave the country in 2020. In addition, there are three foreign media correspondents of Chinese origin ( Gui Minhai, Yang Hengjun and Cheng Lei) who are in custody for espionage.