China - Censorship and persecution in pole position at Shanghai Grand Prix

Reporters without borders

As a three-day Formula One Grand Prix gets under way in Shanghai today, Reporters Without Borders urges the Chinese authorities to stop persecuting news providers and lift censorship. To highlight what is behind the scenes of this sports event, Reporters Without Borders is releasing a visual inspired by “Tank Man,” the anonymous individual who was famously photographed blocking the advance of a column of People's Liberation Army tanks during the June 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. China (...)

© Reporters sans frontières - vendredi 12 avril 2013