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Chinese paramilitary police beat two Japanese journalists Monday night in the border city of Kashgar, where a deadly attack targeting police officers had occurred hours earlier, journalist groups said.

Paramilitary police detained Masami Kawakita, a photographer with the Chunichi newspaper, and Shinji Katsuta, a reporter with the Nippon Television Network, as they were covering the recent attack on police, the Foreign Correspondents Club of China and Reporters Without Borders said.

The police yanked them off the street, beat them and damaged their equipment, according to the two journalist groups -- which cited the journalists' employers, several witnesses, and the national Kyodo news service of Japan. Read full article »

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