{"id":4193,"date":"2018-10-12T19:18:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iuhrdf.org\/en\/2018\/10\/12\/china-forces-out-buzzfeed-journalist\/"},"modified":"2018-10-12T19:18:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:18:55","slug":"china-forces-out-buzzfeed-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iuhrdf.org\/en\/china-forces-out-buzzfeed-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"China Forces Out Buzzfeed Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HONG KONG \u2014 An American reporter for Buzzfeed News has become the latest foreign journalist to be forced from China, which has a history of retaliating against news organizations and individual journalists for critical coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Megha Rajagopalan, who was Buzzfeed News\u2019s China bureau chief, said it was not clear why China\u2019s Foreign Ministry declined to issue her a new journalist visa. \u201cThey say this is a process thing, we are not totally clear why,\u201d she wrote Wednesday on Twitter<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms. Rajagopalan has written<\/a> extensively<\/a> about surveillance and mass incarceration of ethnic Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region of northwest China, subjects the Chinese authorities have tried to block journalists from covering.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n