Ved torsdagens Nobelpris-uddeling i Oslo var det mere end systemkritikeren Liu Xiaobo’s stol, som stod tom. Ved samme lejlighed blev det tydeligt, at Kina ikke er på vej til at lempe sin undertrykkelse af medierne, mener NGOen “Commitee to Protect Journalists”.
Ifølge “Commitee to Protect Journalists” (CPJ) er Kina anno 2010 på nogenlunde samme stadie som Kina under Mao i 1950’erne.
CPJ skriver videre på sin hjemmeside fredag:
And this from a country with more people now online than there are in all of the United States’s population, as Chinese journalists increasingly assert their rights to cover news and not fear intimidation, and with new digital platforms like increasingly smart mobile phones that can circumvent censors’ controls.
The hard-line bureaucrats at the Central Propaganda Department had prepared no counter-messages.
Despite months of advance warning, they had come up with no way of disarming what was, for their country, an international public relations disaster.
Their attempt at launching their own counter-Nobel ceremony–the Confucius Peace Prize, awarded to former Taiwanese Vice President Lien Chan, who declined to show up, and said he had not been informed that he had won–was, by all reports, a sad, ad hoc affair with a 6-year-old girl accepting the award.
Læs videre på: http://cpj.org
