US paper says reporter was held in China’s Inner Mongolia News Austin American-Statesman Austin, TX


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BEIJING (AP) " An American newspaper says one of its journalists was detained and then expelled from China's Inner Mongolia region while covering tensions over a new policy that reduces the use of the Mongolian language in education. The Los Angeles Times said in a story published online Thursday that the reporter was interrogated at a police station, grabbed by the throat and pushed into a cell and held for more than four hours before being forced to leave the northern Chinese region. The incident comes amid broader tensions between the U.S. and China over journalists stationed in each other's...