{"id":1753590,"date":"2022-11-28T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753590"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:34:31","slug":"report-chinese-police-assault-bbc-reporter-at-shanghai-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-chinese-police-assault-bbc-reporter-at-shanghai-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Chinese Police Assault BBC Reporter at Shanghai Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-chinese-police-assault-bbc-reporter-at-shanghai-protest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753590&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By David Milliken and Martin Quin Pollard<\/p>\n<p>LONDON\/BEIJING (Reuters)\u2014The BBC said Chinese police had assaulted one of its journalists covering a protest in the commercial hub of Shanghai and detained him for several hours, drawing criticism from Britain&#8217;s government which described his detention as &#8220;shocking&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>China disputed the account and said the journalist had not identified himself as a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The BBC is extremely concerned about the treatment of our journalist Ed Lawrence, who was arrested and handcuffed while covering the protests in Shanghai,&#8221; the British public service broadcaster said in a statement late on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was held for several hours before being released. During his arrest, he was beaten and kicked by the police. This happened while he was working as an accredited journalist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Protesters have taken to the streets of Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities in recent days to demonstrate against heavy COVID-19 measures, a show of civil disobedience that is unprecedented since leader Xi Jinping assumed power.<\/p>\n<p>In Beijing, a foreign ministry spokesman said the BBC&#8217;s statement did not reflect what had happened. &#8220;According to our understanding, the BBC&#8217;s statement is not true,&#8221; spokesman Zhao Lijian said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to authorities in Shanghai, the journalist in question did not reveal his journalist identity at the time, he did not openly show his foreign press card,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the incident happened, law enforcement personnel asked people to leave, and when certain people did not co-operate, they were taken away from the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2018VERY DISAPPOINTED&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Foreign reporters in China are required to carry government-issued cards identifying themselves as accredited journalists when covering news events.<\/p>\n<p>The detention of the journalist was &#8220;shocking and unacceptable&#8221;, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Britain will raise concerns with China about the response to protests while continuing to seek constructive relations with Beijing on other issues, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said media freedom and freedom to protest must be respected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The arrest of BBC journalist Ed Lawrence in China is deeply disturbing. Journalists must be able to do their job without intimidation,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Correspondents&#8217; Club of China said it was &#8220;very disappointed and frustrated at the increasing barriers placed on foreign journalists operating in China and the aggression displayed towards them by police&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC, in its statement before the Chinese ministry comment, said it had not been given a credible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\/BEIJING (Reuters)\u2014The BBC said Chinese police had assaulted one of its journalists covering a protest in the commercial hub of Shanghai and detained him for several hours, drawing criticism from Britain&#8217;s government which described his detention as &#8220;shocking&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe post Report: Chinese Police Assault BBC Reporter at Shanghai Protest appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1753594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}