Image: RTÉ/PrimeTime Image: RTÉ/PrimeTime IRISH JOURNALIST YVONNE Murray, who regularly reports for RTÉ News, has said she and her family were forced to leave China after facing legal threats and pressure from Chinese authorities.
She said authorities took particular issues with John’s reporting for the BBC and have been trying to hinder his work for the past three years. “For them, it’s home. It’s particularly distressing for them to face the reality that they might never be able to go back to the place that they were born as long as the Chinese state is so determined to target and punish journalists for simply doing their job as we were.”
So in the end, you know the secret police who followed us as we left. It’s a sad, departing memory, but it can’t erase all the other happy memories we have from China and we’ll always have those. At least 18 foreign correspondents were expelled by China last year, during a tit-for-tat row with the US that decimated the international press presence in the country.
In recent weeks, Chinese state media and officials have repeatedly attacked Sudworth for his reporting on alleged forced labour practices targeting Uyghur Muslim minorities in Xinjiang’s cotton industry in particular.
The same embassy that tweeted (and deleted) their 'wolf-warrior' drivvle.