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Ten questions for Barack Obama to put to Hu Jintao
Reporters Without Borders calls on US President Barack Obama to put 10 questions about freedom of expression to his counterpart, Hu Jintao, during his visit to China. If President Obama asks these questions and gets answers and undertakings from the Chinese leader, the cause of free expression and press freedom will have progressed, the organisation said.
Why are the websites of the US companies Twitter and Facebook blocked by the Chinese authorities?
Why do the Chinese authorities jam the programmes that are broadcast in Mandarin, Tibetan and Uyghur by the US-funded stations Radio Free Asia and Voice of America?
Is he going to pardon the hundreds of imprisoned journalists, intellectuals and bloggers, including Liu Xiaobo, Hu Jia, Shi Tao and Qi Chonghuai, who did nothing but express their opinions peacefully?
Why are foreign journalists, including American journalists, unable to visit Tibet without a permit?
Why is the Tibetan filmmaker Dhondhup Wangchen being tried on a charge of subversion when all he did was film interviews with Tibetans?
Why are international news agencies, including US news agencies, unable to sell their services directly to Chinese news media?
Why does the Propaganda Department routinely censor international news reports, including some aspects of the growing dispute with Iran over its nuclear programme?
Why do the Chinese security forces prevent journalists from freely doing investigative reporting in the area along the border with North Korea?
Why have the communication services (including Internet and telephone services) of the inhabitants of Xinjiang been blocked or kept under close surveillance for nearly four months?
Why are investigative journalists, especially those trying to cover business and corruption cases, still being harassed by the police and Propaganda department, a problem that led to the recent joint resignation of many of the editors and reporters employed by the leading magazine Caijing?
Why do the Chinese authorities jam the programmes that are broadcast in Mandarin, Tibetan and Uyghur by the US-funded stations Radio Free Asia and Voice of America?
Is he going to pardon the hundreds of imprisoned journalists, intellectuals and bloggers, including Liu Xiaobo, Hu Jia, Shi Tao and Qi Chonghuai, who did nothing but express their opinions peacefully?
Why are foreign journalists, including American journalists, unable to visit Tibet without a permit?
Why is the Tibetan filmmaker Dhondhup Wangchen being tried on a charge of subversion when all he did was film interviews with Tibetans?
Why are international news agencies, including US news agencies, unable to sell their services directly to Chinese news media?
Why does the Propaganda Department routinely censor international news reports, including some aspects of the growing dispute with Iran over its nuclear programme?
Why do the Chinese security forces prevent journalists from freely doing investigative reporting in the area along the border with North Korea?
Why have the communication services (including Internet and telephone services) of the inhabitants of Xinjiang been blocked or kept under close surveillance for nearly four months?
Why are investigative journalists, especially those trying to cover business and corruption cases, still being harassed by the police and Propaganda department, a problem that led to the recent joint resignation of many of the editors and reporters employed by the leading magazine Caijing?
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10. When will the Obama regime start enabling Main Street instead of being spokesmen for the Military-Prison-Industrial-Complex?
2. When will USA formally apologize to the Iraqi & Afghan peoples?
3. How many hundreds of Billions of reparations is the USA prepare to pay the victimized Iraqi & Afghan nations?
4. When will USA end its Trillion-dollar Bailout of Wall Street?
5. When will USA actually close Gitmo & renounce torture?
6. How will the Obama regime spend money to create jobs instead of giving free loans to financial vampires like Goldman Sachs?
7. How will USA actually develop a single-payer health system that will protect all Americans at an affordable cost?
8. When will the Obama regime stop protecting Bushed officials from active investigations into their roles in war crimes?
9. When will USA start dismantling its 700+ overseas military bases?
10. When will the Obama regime start enabling Main Street instead of being spokesmen for the Military-Prison-Industrial-Complex?
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