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• 08 Apr 08
  

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  Foreign journalists have been banned from traveling to Tibet and prevented by the police from reporting on protests by Tibetans in other Chinese provinces. Domestic newspapers, TV programs, and Internet sites have carried only articles produced by the official Xinhua news agency. News reports on international TV networks such as CNN and the BBC have been blacked out by censors.

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  • The director of the Foreign Ministry's information department, Hong Lei, who in the past has helped journalists being obstructed  by local police, says he can only "cooperate with the local authorities. When there is some emergency, the local authorities  have the authority to set up prohibited areas for outsiders," he says. 

     

    Banning foreign journalists from reporting on such emergencies serves "the peace, stability, and unity of this country," he  adds.
  • When there is some emergency, the local authorities  have the authority to set up prohibited areas for outsiders

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