China censors criticism and reporting of Shanghai’s deadly New Year stampede

BEIJING – Even as China’s president ordered an investigation into a New Year’s Eve stampede in Shanghai that killed 36 people, the nation’s censors and police were hard at work – restricting independent reporting of the incident, curtailing interviews with relatives of the victims and intimidating critics. Shanghai police have admitted they failed to deploy […]

















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