U.S. media reporter interviewed protest in Inner Mongolia, arrested by police

 Reporter : Yue Wenxiao / Editor : Yuan Mingqing / Publisher : Sound Of Hope

Ref : https://www.soundofhope.org/post/418483 / Direct translation

The Chinese Communist Party's forced promotion of Chinese language teaching in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region triggered local protests. A US media reporter was detained by the local police when he was arrested for an interview. Pushed and was forced to leave Inner Mongolia.

On September 3, the "Los Angeles Times" published a long interview in Hohhot by reporter Alice Su in Beijing. The report said that the reporter was surrounded by unidentified men in plainclothes while conducting an interview in a local school. , Was then stuffed into a police car and taken to a police station for questioning.

The reporter identified herself in the police station and declared that she was interviewing legally, but the police still took away her belongings and prohibited her from contacting the US Embassy.

The report said that during this period, a policeman strangled the reporter's throat with his hands and pushed her into a cell.

After being detained for more than four hours, the reporter was forcibly taken to the railway station by three government officials and one policeman. She was forced to leave Inner Mongolia on a train bound for Beijing.

Su Yi'an also quoted an anonymous Inner Mongolia police source in the report that the security department in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is working overtime. The source said, "In the police station where he works, the police have detained many people every day for the past two weeks."

The source also provided a picture of the arrest order issued on the police’s internal platform, saying that they “will receive new (capture) targets every two to three hours, usually those who have participated in protests or supported protests online. people."

The Los Angeles Times report did not reveal the name of the reporter who was detained at one time, but the Associated Press report later revealed that the reporter involved was Su Yi'an, a reporter from Los Angeles Times in Beijing.

Su Yian confirmed the incident, but did not comment on the incident. She said on Twitter that Mongolian teachers, students, parents, and even the police are working hard to defend their language. The source of the Mongolian police who revealed the inside story to Su Yi'an also said that he would not arrest the Mongolians.