From AP:
Secret police tails. Reprimands or perhaps even expulsion for writing about topics sensitive for the Chinese Communist Party. Propaganda apparatchiks working overtime to stifle negative news.
These were some of the grim scenarios painted Friday at a Paris conference sponsored by press freedom groups about conditions that foreign reporters might face at the Beijing Olympics this August.
China’s viewpoint was not heard: The two-day meeting’s organizers said Beijing Games officials, the International Olympic Committee, leading sports manufacturers and NBC, which holds the U.S. rights to broadcast the Olympics, declined or did not respond to invitations.
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