[net-gold] CHINA: Propaganda Department Sets Rule for Covering Shanghai Expo and Qinghai Earthquake (Eng+Fr)
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Subject: [Net-Gold] CHINA: Propaganda Department Sets Rule for Covering Shanghai
Expo and Qinghai Earthquake (Eng+Fr)
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CHINA: Propaganda Department Sets Rule
for Covering Shanghai Expo and
Qinghai Earthquake (Eng+Fr)
From: RSF ASIA <asie@xxxxxxx>
Date: 2010/4/29
Subject: [rsfasie] CHINA:
Propaganda Department sets rule for covering
Shanghai Expo and Qinghai earthquake (Eng+Fr)
To: RSF ASIA <asie@xxxxxxx>
Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans fronti?res
29 April 2010
Fran?ais :
<http://fr.rsf.org/chine-censure-expo-shanghai-
tremblement-de-terre-qinghai-29-04-2010,37230.html>
English:
<http://en.rsf.org/china-shanghai-expo-earthquake-
qinghai-censorship-29-04-2010,37231.html>
*CHINA***
*Propaganda Department sets rule for
covering Shanghai Expo and Qinghai
earthquake*
The Propaganda Department and the
government Information Office have
imposed strict rules for coverage of
the Shanghai World Expo that begins
this weekend and the 14 April earthquake
in the Tibetan province of Qinghai.
In a 23 April directive, the Propaganda
Department asked the Chinese media
to wait until after tomorrow?s opening
ceremony to run articles about the
exhibition?s best pavilions and advised
them to use the official news agency
Xinhua?s reports about the content of
the pavilions.
Reporters Without Borders has been told
that another directive from the
Propaganda Department on 25 April
asked the media to reduce their coverage
of the consequences of the Qinghai
earthquake and increase the number of
reports and features about the Shanghai
exhibition.
According to the information obtained
by Reporters Without Borders, the
Propaganda Department has set the
following rules for covering the
earthquake: Talk of the earthquake
in ?scientific terms" ; Do not criticise
the earthquake forecasting agency ;
Do not focus too much on the efforts by
Buddhist monks to help the victims ;
and Give extensive coverage to the
appeals for donations organised by
state-owned CCTV.
?The Propaganda Department?s attitude
is incredibly paternalistic and
conservative,? Reporters Without
Borders said. ?We call for an end to
censorship of the consequences of the
Qinghai earthquake and for the release
of the Tibetan writer who was arrested
last week because of the comments he
made.?
It was to denounce this kind of
censorship and repression that Reporters
Without Borders has launched for the
Shanghai Expo a virtual Garden of
Freedoms on its website at
<http://en.rsf.org/shanghai_en.html>
The Chinese authorities are also
preventing the Hong Kong-based newspaper
Apple Daily from going to Shanghai to
cover the exhibition. In 2008, the
authorities initially refused to give
the newspaper permission to cover the
Beijing Olympic Games before finally
relenting.
The Information Office, whose
responsibilities include monitoring the
Internet, has reminded major news
websites that they can not do their own
reporting. As regards the earthquake,
the government has ordered sites
managers to make sure that reports
contain no mention of the Dalai Lama
and the solidarity campaigns organised
by Tibetans.
The government has also told the
main websites to provide only limited
coverage of the leadership changes
in Xinjiang province and to prevent any
comments on subjects linked to the
conflict under way there.
These directives have coincided with
the arrest of Tibetan writer and
scholar Tagyal, who is better known
by the pen-name of Shogdung, for signing
an open letter about the earthquake.
Local police in Xining, in the western
province of Qinghai, arrested him
during a search of the offices of the
Qinghai Nationalities publishing house
on 23 April. The police also seized
computers from his home that evening.
His wife said they later came back to
give her a copy of the order for his
arrest.
Signed by Tagyal and other Tibetan
intellectuals and released on 17 April,
the open letter offered condolences to
the families of the victims and
criticised certain aspects of the
Chinese government?s handling of the
relief efforts. The authorities had
prevented Tagyal from visiting the
quake-hit areas.
The authorities meanwhile also jammed
a special programme of condolences
broadcast by Voice of Tibet, an
independent radio station based abroad.
Finally, Zhu Di, the editor of the
opinion pages of Nanfang Dushi Bao
(Southern Metropolitan), a daily based
in the southern province of Guangdong,
was suspended on 17 April for allowing
the publication of an opinion piece six
days earlier that was entitled
?Loving one?s country does not mean
loving one?s government.? Her suspension
was ordered by the province?s governor.
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*CHINE*
*Le D?partement de la propagande
impose des r?gles pour couvrir l'Expo
Shanghai et le tremblement de terre*
Le D?partement de la propagande et
le Bureau de l'information du
gouvernement ont impos? des r?gles
strictes dans la couverture de
l'Exposition universelle qui va
s'ouvrir ? Shanghai et du tremblement de
terre du Qinghai. Dans une directive
du 23 avril 2010 dont Reporters sans
fronti?res a eu connaissance, le
D?partement de la propagande a demand? aux
m?dias chinois d'attendre apr?s la
c?r?monie d'ouverture pour publier des
articles sur les meilleurs pavillons
de l'Expo. Il est conseill? aux m?dias
d'utiliser les informations de l'agence
officielle Xinhua sur le contenu des
pavillons.
Reporters sans fronti?res a ?t?
inform?e que dans une autre directive dat?e
du 25 avril, le D?partement de la
propagande a demand? aux m?dias de r?duire
la couverture des cons?quences du
tremblement de terre dans la province
tib?taine du Qinghai. Il a ?t? conseill?
aux m?dias de multiplier leurs
articles sur l'Expo Shanghai.
"L'attitude paternaliste et conservatrice du
d?partement de la Propagande est
consternante. Nous demandons la lev?e de la
censure sur les cons?quences du tremblement
de terre au Qinghai et la lib?ration de
l'?crivain tib?tain qui y a ?t? arr?t?
pour ses commentaires", a affirm?
l'organisation.
C'est pour d?noncer cette censure et
cette r?pression que Reporters sans
fronti?res a lanc? le Jardin des
Libert?s sur son site :
http://fr.rsf.org/shanghai.html
Selon les informations de Reporters
sans fronti?res, le D?partement de la
propagande a pr?cis? les r?gles pour
la couverture du tremblement de terre :
parler du s?isme en "termes scientifiques" ;
ne pas critiquer l'administration en charge
de la pr?vision des tremblements de terre ;
ne pas trop se concentrer sur les efforts
des moins bouddhistes pour aider les
victimes et ; couvrir largement les
appels aux dons organis?s par la cha?ne
officielle CCTV.
Par ailleurs, les autorit?s chinoises
emp?chent les reporters du quotidien
Apple Daily de Hong Kong de se rendre
? Shanghai pour couvrir l'Expo. D?j?,
en 2008, les autorit?s avaient refus?
d'accorder des autorisations ? ce
m?dia pour les JO de P?kin, avant de
changer de d?cision. De son c?t?, le
Bureau d'information du gouvernement,
notamment charg? du contr?le de
l'Internet, a rappel? aux sites
d'informations qu'ils ne devaient pas
produire leurs propres reportages.
A propos du tremblement de terre,
le gouvernement a ordonn? aux
responsables des sites d'?tre
vigilants pour que n'apparaisse aucune
information li?e au dala? lama
(originaire de cette r?gion) et
les campagnes de solidarit? organis?es
par les Tib?tains.
Le gouvernement a ?galement pr?cis?
aux principaux sites de couvrir de
mani?re limit?e les changements
intervenus ? la t?te de la province du
Xinjiang (Nord-Ouest), et d'emp?cher
les commentaires sur tous les sujets
li?s au conflit en cours dans la r?gion
ouighoure.
Ces instructions interviennent au m?me
moment que l'arrestation d'un
?crivain tib?tain, M. Tagyal, connu
sous son nom de plume, Shogdung, pour
avoir publi? une lettre ouverte
relative au tremblement de terre. Le 23
avril, des policiers du commissariat
de Xining (province du Qinghai, Ouest)
ont perquisitionn? les bureaux de la
maison d'?dition Qinghai Nationalities
o? ils ont arr?t? l'?crivain.
Dans la soir?e, des policiers ont saisi
ses ordinateurs ? son domicile.
Son ?pouse a d?clar? que la police ?tait
revenue pour livrer un ordre d'arrestation.
Le 17 avril, un groupe d'intellectuels
tib?tains ont publi? une lettre de
condol?ances aux familles des victimes,
critiquant certains aspects de la
gestion des secours par les autorit?s
chinoises. M. Tagyal avait ?t? emp?ch?
par les autorit?s de se rendre sur les
lieux du tremblement de terre.
Par ailleurs, les autorit?s ont
brouill? un programme sp?cial de
condol?ances produit par la radio
ind?pendante Voice of Tibet,
install?e ? l'?tranger.
Enfin, la responsable des pages
"opinion" du quotidien Nanfang Dushi Bao
(M?tropole du Sud) a ?t? suspendue de
son poste le 17 avril apr?s la
publication, six jours plus t?t, d'un
commentaire intitul? : "Aimer son pays
ne veut pas dire aimer son gouvernement.
La journaliste Zhu Di a ?t?
sanctionn?e sur instruction du gouverneur
de la province du Guangdong (Sud).
Vincent Brossel
Asia-Pacific Desk
Reporters Without Borders
33 1 44 83 84 70
asia@xxxxxxx
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