Saturday 13 September 2014

China pushes interns working at American news agencies to serve as spies - Boing Boing

"A paper released by the Foreign Correspondent's Club in China shows that conditions for reporters in the country have gone from bad to worse. In addition to pressuring journalists directly, "authorities have also taken aim at Chinese citizens working for foreign news bureaus," reports the New York Times.

"Half of all respondents who employ Chinese news assistants said they had been threatened or harassed by the authorities. In some instances, national security agents have pressed interns working at American news outlets to act as spies, and when they refused, pressured them into quitting."

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/12/china-pushes-interns-working-a.html



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