Wikileaks Thread

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by benwm, Dec 3, 2010.

  1. I am waiting for the leaks on banks too. I think Assange too fearful of the banks or has Wikileaks been paid to keep quiet?
     
    #181     Mar 1, 2011
  2. I am waiting for the leaks on banks too. I think Assange too fearful of the banks or has Wikileaks been paid to keep quiet?
     
    #182     Mar 1, 2011
  3. Chinese officials have warned foreign journalists they need advance permission to report from parts of Beijing and must not do so from a particular spot in Shanghai, marking an apparent tightening of media restrictions.

    A foreign ministry official appeared to blame the move on overseas journalists who said they were harassed at the site of proposed protests that did not materialise.

    Bloomberg News said men who appeared to be plainclothes police kicked and beat its cameraman in front of uniformed officers on Sunday, and a BBC correspondent said he and a colleague were roughed up and thrown into a van.

    Five news organisations reported having equipment confiscated or materials destroyed and other journalists were detained, delayed or manhandled as they reported from the site of proposed "jasmine revolution" protests, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.

    Officials had now told some media they require special permits to report in several parts of Beijing, the club said, and in Shanghai journalists had been asked to sign pledges not to film or photograph at the proposed protest site.

    No one knows who has made the calls for demonstrations, which were posted on an overseas website. Extensive censorship has ensured the vast majority of Chinese citizens are unaware of them and few of those who knew of earlier announcements showed any intention to protest.

    But authorities appear nervous following uprisings in the Middle East and have cracked down on dissidents and activists. The annual political meetings begin in Beijing this week and are always accompanied by intensified security.

    Pressed on Sunday's attacks on Wangfujing, a popular shopping street, the foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular briefing: "Many media organisations haven't encountered any trouble while reporting in China for many years. Why do some journalists always run into trouble? I find it strange. The journalists should really respect the laws and regulations."

    She added: "That place is a busy street, the flow of people is large and not a single thing was happening. Who did so many reporters receive a notice from [to attend]?"

    She said reporters had ignored police instructions to request permission before reporting there. But police rang only some journalists and some of those said they had been told only to obey reporting regulations.

    "The police provided reasonable guidance, and the journalists should understand and co-operate," Jiang said. "If both sides take this attitude, we can minimise the occurrence of such incidents."

    She said journalists should report assaults to the police.

    Regulations were relaxed ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games to allow reporters to work freely anywhere in China bar Tibet, where special permits are required. But in practice authorities have closed areas to the media when they consider them sensitive. In March 2008, reporters were barred from Tibetan areas in Sichuan as unrest spread.

    The government now seems to have put several areas of the capital off-limits to routine reporting, although Jiang said regulations had not changed.

    Local media are under far more pressure than overseas organisations. They are heavily censored and reporters have been fired for covering sensitive material.

    Bob Dietz, the Asia coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said Sunday's incidents were "the worst aggression against the foreign press we've seen since the Olympics in 2008.

    "Such a heavy-handed response discredits the ruling Chinese Communist party and highlights their fear of popular opposition," he said.

    The outgoing US ambassador, Jon Huntsman, has described the harassment and assault of journalists as "unacceptable and deeply disturbing", and the EU delegation in Beijing urged Chinese authorities to hold the perpetrators to account.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/01/china-foreign-journalists
     
    #183     Mar 1, 2011
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    #184     Mar 3, 2011
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  6. #187     Mar 5, 2011