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The PRC threatened the daughter of an Australian journalist because they didn’t like his reporting
“We were instructed to report to a facility in north Beijing and told to bring my daughter who was 14 at the time as she was now part of the investigation.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/matthew-carney-foreign-journalist-china-intimidation-birtles/12678610
“We were instructed to report to a facility in north Beijing and told to bring my daughter who was 14 at the time as she was now part of the investigation.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/matthew-carney-foreign-journalist-china-intimidation-birtles/12678610
“After a pause the woman answered:
‘Do you know that as a law-abiding country we have the right to detain your daughter?’
She knew she had total power over me and she let the words sink in.”
‘Do you know that as a law-abiding country we have the right to detain your daughter?’
She knew she had total power over me and she let the words sink in.”
“After some time she added:
‘I do have to inform you, Mr Carney, that we have a right to keep your daughter in an undisclosed location and I do have to inform you there would be other adults present.’”
‘I do have to inform you, Mr Carney, that we have a right to keep your daughter in an undisclosed location and I do have to inform you there would be other adults present.’”
Here’s the key. All this happened in 2018, years before the US got tougher on PRC journalists.
“My story — which occurred two years earlier [in 2018] — suggests there is more to their actions against foreign journalists than tit-for-tat reprisals as the Chinese portray it.”
“My story — which occurred two years earlier [in 2018] — suggests there is more to their actions against foreign journalists than tit-for-tat reprisals as the Chinese portray it.”
