Dutch Reporter Dragged Away by Chinese Security on Live TV While Covering Beijing Winter Olympics

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The much-anticipated Winter Olympics in Beijing got off to an awkward start as a member of the local security forces wearing a red armband accosted and pushed a Dutch reporter who was attempting to report on the event.

The incident is the latest example of the communist regimeโ€™s intolerance of a free press. To some, it represents a microcosm of the official repression and abusive practices employed that have helped make the Winter Olympics controversial and drive some organizations to boycott the event.

In a clip of the incident aired by the Dutch broadcaster NOS on Twitter that quickly received thousands of likes and re-tweets, viewers can see NOS reporter Sjoerd den Daas standing in front of a busy street and overpass while delivering his commentary into a microphone when the guard moves up without warning and begins yelling and pushing him aggressively.

Den Daas tries to ignore the guard and carry on with his reportage, his gaze alternating between the camera and the increasingly menacing guard, until the camera cuts away.

NOSโ€™s tweet of the clip states that den Daas was able to resume his on-air report a few minutes after the guard accosted him. But the incident quickly drew international attention as a spate of Western publications rushed to report it.

The Winter Olympics has already been a source of heated international controversy going back many months. The United States and a host of Western allies last year announced diplomatic boycotts of the Games in protest against the Chinese regimeโ€™s atrocities against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang and other abuses elsewhere.

Byย Michael Washburn

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