{"id":62554,"date":"2024-03-14T14:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/14\/china-explosion-restaurant-blast-state-media-police-harassment"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T05:57:35","slug":"chinese-state-media-body-condemns-police-harassment-at-site-of-deadly-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62554","title":{"rendered":"Chinese state media body condemns police harassment at site of deadly blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The All-China Journalists Association \u2013 a Communist party-backed group \u2013 issue a rare rebuke of authorities attempts to \u2018control public opinion\u2019<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s journalist association has issued a rare rebuke over police harassment, after videos emerged of state media journalists being pushed away from the site of a deadly explosion.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s\/r7B-a-c6NZ-fw9qIArm4EA\">statement<\/a> published on Wednesday evening, the All-China Journalists Association (AJCA), a Communist party-backed group, said that \u201clegitimate interviews are a journalist\u2019s right\u201d, adding that the authorities \u201cshould not simply and brutally obstruct the media journalists from performing their duties in a normal manner in order to control public opinion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/14\/china-explosion-restaurant-blast-state-media-police-harassment\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All-China Journalists Association \u2013 a Communist party-backed group \u2013 issue a rare rebuke of authorities attempts to \u2018control public opinion\u2019China\u2019s journalist association has issued a rare rebuke over police harassment, after videos emerged of stat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-press-freedom"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62554\/revisions\/62555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}