{"id":4085,"date":"2018-09-30T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T11:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/09\/30\/another-journalist-expelled-chinas-abuses-grow-who-will-see-them\/"},"modified":"2018-09-30T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T11:42:14","slug":"another-journalist-expelled-chinas-abuses-grow-who-will-see-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/another-journalist-expelled-chinas-abuses-grow-who-will-see-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Another journalist expelled \u2013 as China’s abuses grow, who will see them?"},"content":{"rendered":"

B<\/span>uzzfeed\u2019s China bureau chief, Megha Rajagopalan, who has reported from the country for six years, announced on Twitter<\/a> last week that the Chinese government had refused to renew her journalist visa, effectively expelling her. The authorities did not explain the decision, which came after her recent reports exposing the growing abuses in the Muslim minority region of Xinjiang<\/a>, which surely drew the authorities\u2019 ire. The Chinese state tabloid Global Times published an op-ed<\/a> that called her <\/span>work<\/span> \u201cdelusional western reporting\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rajagopalan\u2019s expulsion follows<\/a> those of French reporter Ursula Gauthier in 2015 and US journalist Melissa Chan in 2012. The US journalists Paul Mooney and Austin Ramzy were denied visas to work in China either because of their reporting on human rights issues or because their news <\/span>organisations<\/span> had dug into top leaders\u2019 murky web of wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n