
When China put a journalist under 2-year house arrest in retaliation for jailing of correspondents
“China today decided to restrict the personal freedom of Reuters’ correspondent in Peking as a reprisal for the ‘unjustified persecution’ of Communist reporters by the British authorities in Hongkong,” reported the South China Morning Post on July 22, 1967. “Peking Radio said the Chinese Government had told the correspondent, Mr Anthony Grey, that he would…