Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Sina Weibo Censors Journalist's Call to Reassess Tiananmen

On July 1, 2012, the Associated Press reported:
A Hong Kong reporter briefly threw Chinese President Hu Jintao's tightly scripted visit to the semiautonomous city off course Saturday by asking about the 1989 military crackdown on protesters in Tiananmen Square. 
The reporter for the Apple Daily newspaper said he was detained for about 15 minutes after the incident by three to four security officers, who told him he was too noisy and had broken rules. Other reporters also shouted questions to Hu, but they weren't detained.
Hu was touring a new cruise ship terminal when the reporter shouted out a question to him from behind a security cordon. 
"President Hu, have you heard that Hong Kong people hope to reverse the verdict of June 4?" the reporter, Hon Yiu-ting, asked. "Have you heard?"
The screenshots show that searches on Sina Weibo on July 2 for:

"Hon Yiu-ting" (曾健超) returned no results, just a notice saying "In accordance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies, search results for 'Hon Yiu-ting' have not been displayed." (根据相关法律法规和政策,“曾健超”搜索结果未予显示。)

"Hong Kong Reassess" (香港 平反) returned no results, just a notice saying "In accordance with relevant laws, regulations, and policies, search results for 'Hong Kong Reassess' have not been displayed." (根据相关法律法规和政策,“香港 平反”搜索结果未予显示。)

"Reassess" (平反) by itself returns over 1 million results.
 



 

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