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National Peoples Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo's Italy Delegation Clashes with Chinese-Language Reporters
By chinafreepress.org (translation)
May 24, 2009 - 3:02:58 AM
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National Peoples Congress Chairman Wu Bangguo's Italy Delegation Clashes with Chinese-Language Reporters
China Free Press via Boxun reports that on the evening of Thursday May
21, Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member and National
Peoples Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo was visiting Italy and
having a photograph taken with a delegation of Overseas Chinese
representatives, Overseas Chinese students and Chinese-invested
enterprises when a National Peoples Congress information officer
ordered the expulsion of duly credentialed reporters from Phoenix
Satellite Television and other Chinese-language media outlets. The
journalists strongly protested, leading to a disturbance.
After the information officer said "We do not need you Chinese-language
media, you must all leave," the journalists immediately protested.
"Do you know how patriotic Chinese-language reporters in Europe are?"
"Your kind of official is more despicable than corrupt officials."
"You are a traitor to our ethnicity."
"You are a beast in human clothing, you are lower than a dog."
The information official then threatened: "If you don't leave immediately, I will have your reporting equipment confiscated."
This further enraged the reporters, who called out, "Please do not so
wantonly violate our human rights while in the Republic of Italy. We
have the legitimate right to report. Do you really dare to confiscate
our equipment?"
Shortly after this outburst the NPC delegation sat down to a banquet free of media oversight.
Full Chinese report at: http://www.peacehall.com/news/gb/intl/2009/05/200905220514.shtml
© Copyright 2009 by Boxun News
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