{"id":12866,"date":"2023-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/survey-no-foreign-journalists-allowed-in-tibet-autonomous-region-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2023-03-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:00:00","slug":"survey-no-foreign-journalists-allowed-in-tibet-autonomous-region-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/survey-no-foreign-journalists-allowed-in-tibet-autonomous-region-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: No foreign journalists allowed in Tibet Autonomous Region in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every foreign journalist in a recent survey who applied to report in the Tibet Autonomous Region in 2022 says China\u2019s government denied their requests. Even those who were able to visit other Tibetan areas faced restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club of China surveyed over 100 of its members &#8211; representing news organizations from 30 countries and regions &#8211; in December 2022 and January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the club\u2019s new report, \u201cZero Covid, Many Controls: Covering China in 2022,\u201d three foreign journalists who took the survey applied for permission to enter the Tibet Autonomous Region last year. All three got a rejection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The TAR is the only region that the People\u2019s Republic of China requires foreigners, including foreign media, to have special permission to enter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAccess to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) remains officially restricted for foreign journalists,\u201d the report says. \u201cReporters must apply to the government for special permission or join a press tour organized by China\u2019s State Council or\u201d Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The TAR spans roughly half of Tibet, a country in Asia\u2019s Himalayan region that China has <a href=\"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/tibet-least-free-country-alongside-south-sudan-syria-in-new-ranking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brutally occupied<\/a> for over 60 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ICT quote<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cChina\u2019s government does not want the world to see what it is doing to the Tibetan people. That\u2019s why Chinese officials denied foreign journalists permission to report in the Tibet Autonomous Region last year,\u201d<\/em> said the International Campaign for Tibet, an advocacy group based in Washington, DC and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe fact that so few journalists in the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club survey even made the attempt to apply to enter the TAR shows that media know the Chinese authorities will likely deny their requests. But the stories of Tibetans suffering under China\u2019s rule must be told.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cICT urges foreign journalists to continue their efforts to report the truth about Tibet. ICT also calls on China\u2019s government to settle the conflict over Tibet through peaceful negotiations with the Dalai Lama\u2019s envoys. That way, China will no longer need to hide Tibet from the global media.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Outside the TAR<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report from the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club also points to restrictions on media access to Tibetan areas outside the TAR, even though technically these are open to foreigners, including media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report quotes a journalist from a Western news outlet whom police prevented from reporting in a Tibetan area in Sichuan province:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI was stopped and detained by police and local officials in a Tibetan area of Sichuan. Officials claimed because of Covid controls, foreigners were not being allowed in, even though I had three negative Covid tests in the past three days. They tried to force me onto a plane to Chengdu, but when the plane was canceled, they refused to let me go and drove me straight to Chengdu instead, a nearly 11 hour drive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report says 2022 was difficult all-around for foreign correspondents in China, with the Chinese government expelling many journalists and using COVID-19 restrictions to limit the work of those who remained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every foreign journalist in a recent survey who applied to report in the Tibet Autonomous Region in 2022 says China&#8217;s government denied their requests. 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