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Beijing - China has failed to meet its commitment to allow greater freedom for foreign journalists in the run-up to next month's Olympic Games, a rights group said on Monday. 

"The gap between government rhetoric and reality for foreign journalists remains considerable," US-based Human Rights Watch said in a report. 

"Their working conditions today, while improved in some respects, have deteriorated in other areas, dramatically in the case of Tibet," the group said. 

The government introduced a temporary regulation from January 2007 to October 2008, in principle allowing foreign journalists to talk to anyone who agrees to an interview, in all areas except for the Tibet Autonomous Region. 

But Human Rights Watch said reporters in reality "face severe difficul