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German news television regrets error in covering Tibet riots
BERLIN, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Germany's RTL news television said on Sunday that it "regrets an error" in covering the riots in Lhasa, capital city of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The TV station admitted on its website that it "used a picture in a wrong context."
In fact, the picture shows security forces in Nepal, a neighboring country of China, RTL said in an online statement.
"The image was taken on March 17 in the capital city of Kathmandu, where Nepalese security forces were confronting demonstrators with batons," it said.
"We have accidentally created the impression that it is a scene of the unrest in Tibet with Chinese security forces involved. We regret this error," the statement added.
The RTL Aktuell, a main news program of the RTL TV, along with the German Bild newspaper and the Washington Post, have been found using on their websites pictures of baton-wielding Nepalese police in clashes with protesters in Kathmandu, claiming that the officers were Chinese police.
They were among those Western media that have been condemned by netizens in the past few days for distorting facts in covering the riots in Lhasa.
German news television regrets error in covering Tibet riots--