The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Feb. 21 it was “dismayed” at the Chinese regime’s interference of journalists covering the Winter Olympics in Beijing. “The FCCC is disappointed that China has tightened conditions for the press, contrary to the Olympic spirit,” the organization said in a statement. The reporters’ group pointed to an instance of a Beijing Olympics official’s preventing a foreign reporter from interviewing a Hong Kong athlete in the mixed zone following a ski event, even though International Olympics rules are supposed to apply in those areas. While the International Olympics Committee described the incident as an “isolated” case, the FCCC said that official interference has taken place “regularly” throughout the Games, describing this as “a symptom of the challenging operating environment for foreign media in China.” Even before the Olympics got started, concern over Beijing’s surveillance and interference of foreign media at the Games was …
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