{"id":2324,"date":"2015-12-26T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2015\/12\/26\/china-expels-french-journalist-who-questioned-treatment-uighurs\/"},"modified":"2015-12-26T15:11:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T15:11:44","slug":"china-expels-french-journalist-who-questioned-treatment-uighurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/china-expels-french-journalist-who-questioned-treatment-uighurs\/","title":{"rendered":"China expels French journalist who questioned treatment of Uighurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ursula Gauthier, from L\u2019Obs magazine, was attacked in state media for article criticising Beijing government\u2019s approach to Muslim minority in Xinjiang<\/p>\n

Saturday 26 December 2015 01.57 EST<\/p>\n

China is expelling a French journalist who questioned its treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority in the north-western region of Xinjiang, her employer, the weekly l’Obs news magazine, has said.<\/p>\n

Ursula Gauthier, the magazine’s Beijing correspondent, needs to leave China by 31 December after authorities refused to renew her visa.<\/p>\n

Shortly after publishing a story that suggested China was using the Paris attacks<\/a>to justify crackdowns on Uighur people, Gauthier was the subject of editorials in state-controlled media and even death threats, L’Obs said.<\/p>\n

Several media reported that the Chinese ministry of foreign affairs had asked her to publicly withdraw her report.<\/p>\n

L’Obs, which changed its name from Le Nouvel Observateur in October 2014, stood by its correspondent.<\/p>\n

It wrote in an editorial that her eviction represented a “major incident” at a time when France<\/a> and China were strengthening their economic, cultural and diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n

The French foreign ministry on Friday issued a terse statement in which it regretted that her visa was not renewed. It said: “France would like to remind how important it is for journalists to be able to work everywhere in the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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