Ursula Gauthier, a Beijing-based correspondent for French news magazine L'Obs, must issue a public apology for an article she wrote last month or China's foreign ministry will not renew her press credentials, set to expire on December 31, officials told Gauthier on Christmas Day.
See what the Journalist had to say,
"They confirmed that if I did not make a public apology on all the points that had 'hurt the Chinese people' ... my press card would not be renewed and I would have to leave on December 31".
Gauthier won't be the first foreign correspondent in China to face expulsion because as at 2012, the Country expelled Melissa Chan, a correspondent for the English-language service of Al Jazeera.
However many foreign Correspondents have also laid complaints that the Country leaders always harass them while carrying out their duties as Journalists.
Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities have this to say on the report written by Ursula Gauthier,
"The article criticised China's counter-terrorism efforts, and denigrated and slandered Chinese policies. It provoked the strong indignation of the Chinese public," Hua Chunying, a foreign ministry spokesperson, said at a regular press briefing in early December".
It has been said that Beijing considers condemnation of attacks in Xinjiang by foreign governments and the international press as weak, and also slams Western countries for applying "double standards" on terrorism in the wake of the attacks in Paris.
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