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Last Updated: Jun 4, 2008 - 6:06:54 PM |
New York, June 4, 2008�� The Committee to Protect Journalists released the following statement today after the Associated Press reported that around six journalists were taken away from a site where grieving parents were protesting possibly shoddy construction that had led to the death of their children when school buildings collapsed in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan:
"It is distressing to see Chinese police backing away from China's policy of allowing reporters to cover the aftermath of this tragic event. It serves no purpose to stifle reporting on the human dimension of this natural disaster that has touched so many lives," said Bob Dietz, CPJ's Asia program coordinator.
CPJ is a New York�Cbased, independent, nonprofit organization that works to safeguard press freedom worldwide. For more information, visit www.cpj.org.
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