Posted AT 1:28 AM EST on 07/07/08
China seen as reneging on media-freedom vow
BEIJING — When 25,000 foreign journalists descend on Beijing next month to cover the Olympics, they will face restrictions that are far from the “complete freedom” China promised in its bid for the Games.
Foreign journalists and their sources in China are enduring a system of intimidation, obstruction, surveillance and even beatings and death threats, a new report says.
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