{"id":60070,"date":"2015-12-25T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=60070 "},"modified":"2015-12-25T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T23:41:00","slug":"60070-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=60070","title":{"rendered":"French Journalist to Be Expelled From China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mzzg.org\/UploadCenter\/ArticlePics\/2015\/52\/201512259137A5D1-5FCF-4E75-8974-46F1174FEEE5_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy2_cw0.jpg\" alt=\"201512259137A5D1-5FCF-4E75-8974-46F1174FEEE5_w640_r1_s_cx0_cy2_cw0.jpg (640&#215;360)\" \/><br \/><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">FILE &#8211; Journalist Ursula Gauthier, pictured in February 2003, published a story last month that suggested China was using the recent terrorist attacks in Paris to justify crackdowns on Muslim Uighurs in northwestern China.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div><div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">December 25, 2015 10:12 PM<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">A French journalist working in China said Friday that the Chinese government had ordered her to leave the country within a week, following her reports about the Muslim Uighur minority.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ursula Gauthier, the Beijing correspondent of the weekly L&#8217;Obs news magazine, said China&#8217;s Foreign Ministry will not renew her press credentials, which are set to expire at the end of December, unless she publicly recants one of her stories.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Gauthier published a story last month that suggested China was using the recent terrorist attacks in Paris to justify crackdowns on Muslim Uighurs in northwestern China.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Chinese officials have said the article slandered government policies, and several Chinese state-run media outlets published editorials condemning the story.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">L&#8217;Obs stood by its correspondent, saying in an editorial that Gauthier&#8217;s eviction from China represented a &#8220;major incident&#8221; between China and France.<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">French officials have asked Chinese authorities to reverse their decision. The French Foreign Ministry said Friday that it regretted that Gauthier&#8217;s visa would not be renewed and said &#8220;France would like to remind all how important it is for journalists to be able to work everywhere in the world.&#8221;<\/span><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><\/div><div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/content\/french-jourmalist-expelled-china\/3119488.html\">For detail please visit here<\/a><\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;Ursula Gauthier, the Beijing correspondent of the weekly L&#39;Obs news magazine, said China&#39;s Foreign Ministry will not renew her press credentials, which are set to expire at the end of December, unless she publicly recants one of her stories.&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}