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China: Reporters Covering Liu Xiaobo Death Intimidated, Followed

HeadlineJul 20, 2017

In Shenyang, China, foreign correspondents say they’ve been harassed and intimidated by Chinese authorities, after they reported on the recent death of imprisoned Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo. Liu died last week from liver cancer that went largely untreated while he served an 11-year prison term for so-called subversion, for calling for freedom of assembly, expression and religion in China. In a statement, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China said members who covered Liu’s death were “escorted everywhere by plainclothes men who shamelessly followed them into restaurants and even bathrooms.”

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