{"id":12532,"date":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/tibet-talks-europe-harder-to-visit-than-north-korea-the-lack-of-access-to-tibet-for-foreign-journalists\/"},"modified":"2020-12-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T23:00:00","slug":"tibet-talks-europe-harder-to-visit-than-north-korea-the-lack-of-access-to-tibet-for-foreign-journalists","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/tibet-talks-europe-harder-to-visit-than-north-korea-the-lack-of-access-to-tibet-for-foreign-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Tibet Talks Europe &#8211;  \u2018Harder to visit than North Korea\u2019: The lack of access to Tibet for foreign journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/TTE_9dec-890x484.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10580\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tibet Talks Europe #9: \u2018Harder to visit than North Korea\u2019: The lack of access to Tibet for foreign journalists<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years now, the People\u2019s Republic of China has ranked as one of the worst countries for press freedom in the world, and Tibet \u2013 along with Xinjiang \u2013 is regarded as one of it\u2019s \u201cred zones\u201d, regularly described by journalists as harder to visit than North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What obstacles and challenges do foreign journalists who try to visit Tibet and report about the situation there face? What is China trying to hide in Tibet, and what does the lack of independent reporting on the ground mean for accountability? Coinciding with the World Press Freedom Conference, this episode of Tibet Talks Europe will explore these questions through the first-hand testimonies of journalists who have tried to uncover the reality of the situation in Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Guest speakers:<\/strong> <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u25aa Ursula Gauthier, Former Beijing correspondent for <em>L&#8217;Obs<\/em><br>\u25aa Garrie van Pinxteren, Beijing Correspondent for <em>NRC<\/em><br>\u25aa Brice Pedroletti, Former Beijing bureau chief for <em>Le Monde<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Moderator: <\/strong>Vincent Metten, ICT&#8217;s EU Policy Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Watch the recording of this edition below:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Up7iPnKnKEE\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with the World Press Freedom Conference, this episode of Tibet Talks Europe explored the lack of access to Tibet for foreign journalists through the first-hand testimonies of journalists who have tried to uncover the reality of the situation in Tibet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12533,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categorie":[680],"news_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12532","nieuws","type-nieuws","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie-multimedia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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