{"id":4573,"date":"2015-01-23T21:11:35","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T02:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2015-01-23T21:11:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T02:11:35","slug":"china-harassing-and-imprisoning-chinese-working-for-foreign-news-outlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-harassing-and-imprisoning-chinese-working-for-foreign-news-outlets","title":{"rendered":"China harassing and imprisoning Chinese working for foreign news outlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/01\/2015-01-04T092956Z_01_PEK01_RTRIDSP_3_CHINA-STAMPEDE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/files\/2015\/01\/2015-01-04T092956Z_01_PEK01_RTRIDSP_3_CHINA-STAMPEDE.jpg\" alt=\"2015-01-04T092956Z_01_PEK01_RTRIDSP_3_CHINA-STAMPEDE\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/a>Policemen stand in formation as they guard on the bund where people were killed in a stampede incident during a new year&#8217;s celebration, in Shanghai, on Jan. 3. Chinese state media and the public criticised the government and police on Friday for failing to prevent the stampede in Shanghai that killed<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->36 people and dented the city&#8217;s image as modern China&#8217;s global financial hub. (China Stringer Network\/Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>By William Wan January 22<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 Zhang Miao has now been in prison for almost four months.<\/p>\n<p>She is a Chinese researcher for a German newspaper in China, and her arrest has sparked fear, outrage and some soul-searching among foreign news organizations in China about the role of their Chinese assistants.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting from China has become increasingly difficult and harrowing in recent years for both Chinese and foreign media, with a sweeping crackdown on press freedom since China\u2019s President Xi Jinping took power.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, China had more journalists in prison last year than any other country. Most were Chinese citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/china-harassing-and-imprisoning-chinese-working-for-foreign-news-outlets\/2015\/01\/21\/3941bdc8-a0e6-11e4-91fc-7dff95a14458_story.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policemen stand in formation as they gua &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/china-harassing-and-imprisoning-chinese-working-for-foreign-news-outlets\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[317,90,477,1351,1115],"views":4321,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4575,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinesepen.org\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}