HONG KONG, May 31 (UPI) -- China continues to crack down on the media and has backtracked on its rules to allow greater freedom to foreign journalists.
So found advocacy group Human Rights Watch, which also said that journalists' sources of information are being targeted for reprisal by local officials.
"The Chinese government is already failing to deliver on its pledge to fully lift restrictions for foreign journalists ahead of the Beijing Games," said Sophie Richardson, the group's deputy Asia director. "These arbitrary restrictions on press freedoms undermine the new regulations, and raise questions about the government's commitment to implement them in the first place."
The group said too that some foreign reporters are finding it difficult to access certain regions and are unable to cover certain subjects.
