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China expels two American journalists
UPI Archives, 1989-06-14
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- China expels foreign journalists and restricts coverage of the Tiananmen Square protests
- Claim 195: Associated Press correspondent John Pomfret and Voice of America correspondent Alan Pessin were both ordered to leave China within 72 hours on June 14, 1989.
- Claim 196: Authorities accused Pessin of writing stories to distort facts, spread rumor and incite and stir up turmoil and what the government called counter-revolutionary rebellion.
- Claim 197: Martial law was declared on May 20, 1989, and the government imposed rigid restrictions on news coverage of the pro-democracy demonstrations that followed.
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