L Obs

A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.

A French reporter about to be thrown out of China after being accused of supporting terrorism said today the Chinese authorities were trying to "muzzle the international press".

China says it will impose new restrictions on media reports about terrorism, as it continued to deride a French journalist being expelled after questioning the government's terrorism claims.

China said today that it will not renew press credentials for a French journalist, effectively expelling her following a harsh media campaign against her for questioning the official line equating ethnic violence in China's western Muslim region with global terrorism.

China will expel a French journalist who criticised its treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, her employer, the weekly l'Obs news magazine said on Friday.

A French reporter forced to leave China by authorities after she criticised government policy in violence-wracked, mainly Muslim Xinjiang, said she had been left with a feeling of "surreality" today ahead of her departure.

A French reporter about to be thrown out of China after being accused of supporting terrorism said today the Chinese authorities were trying to "muzzle the international press".

China says it will impose new restrictions on media reports about terrorism, as it continued to deride a French journalist being expelled after questioning the government's terrorism claims.

China said today that it will not renew press credentials for a French journalist, effectively expelling her following a harsh media campaign against her for questioning the official line equating ethnic violence in China's western Muslim region with global terrorism.

China will expel a French journalist who criticised its treatment of its Muslim Uighur minority in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, her employer, the weekly l'Obs news magazine said on Friday.