Irish journalist Yvonne Murray, who reports for RTÉ News and Current Affairs from China, has been forced to leave the country because of mounting pressure from the Chinese authorities.
Ms Murray, who is married to BBC China Correspondent John Sudworth, said they took the decision to leave with their three children after Mr Sudworth was repeatedly threatened by the authorities over his reporting.
Mr Sudworth and Ms Murray had been reporting on issues such as the persecution of China's Muslim Uighur minority.
She will now continue to report on China from neighbouring Taiwan.
Jon Williams, Managing Director of RTÉ News & Currents Affairs, said: "Over the last few years, Yvonne has brought a huge amount to RTÉ's foreign coverage, reporting on the Uighurs from Xinjiang, and from Wuhan on the origins of the pandemic, as well as for Prime Time on the plight of the Irish businessman, Richard O'Halloran, who is detained in China.
"Nothing is more important than safety and family.
"Sadly, in recent months, Taiwan has become a refuge for an increasing number of journalists forced out of Beijing. Once she is ready, Yvonne will continue to report on China from Taiwan."
Speaking on RTÉ's News At One, Ms Murray said: "We left in a hurry as the pressure and threats from the Chinese government, which have been going on for some time, became too much.
"The authorities took issue with my husband's reporting. He works for the BBC and has reported extensively on the incarceration of Uighurs in Xinjiang, as well as the origins of the virus in China."
She said she is now in Taipei "holed up in a quarantine hotel for 14 days and then we will continue to report on China and the wider region from here".
Ms Murray said there are already several foreign correspondents who are based in Taipei following a round of expulsions of US journalists last year and others who have been trying to return to mainland China after the pandemic, but have not been granted visas.
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The journalist said she had been in China for a long time.
"Two of our children were born in China, they all speak fluent Chinese, so for them it is home and it's particularly distressing for them facing the reality that they might never be able to go back, as long as the Chinese state is so determined to target and punish journalists for simply doing their job.
"But we will try to hold on to the memories we've made. China is an extraordinarily colourful, culturally rich country. Friendships we forged with Chinese people over the years can't be taken from us.
"The secret police who followed us as we left - while a sad departing memory - can't erase all the other happy memories."
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BBC News earlier said its correspondent Mr Sudworth had relocated to Taiwan.
In a statement published on one of its official Twitter accounts, BBC News said: "John's work has exposed truth the Chinese authorities did not want the world to know.
"The BBC is proud of John's award-winning reporting during his time in Beijing and he remains our China correspondent."
Beijing took the BBC World News off the airwaves last month in response to what the Chinese embassy in London called "relentless fabrication of 'lies of the century' in reporting China".
It came after the British broadcaster published a report in February that women in Xinjiang's internment camps for Uighurs were subject to rape, sexual abuse and torture.
Mr Sudworth was not one of the BBC journalists credited in the report, though he has been criticised by name by the Chinese foreign ministry, as well as Chinese state and Communist Party-backed media.
China has repeatedly said the BBC's report was false and it has also forcefully denied other claims of human rights abuses in Xinjiang raised by western governments and rights groups.
The Chinese embassy in Dublin tweeted: "She "took the decision to leave", according to her own words. Leave or come back? - It's up to her.
"Nobody has forced or will force her. Sensationalist presentation sells paper but won't for too long.
"Her husband, a BBC correspondent in China, has been strongly criticised by a lot of Chinese for his unfair, unobjective and biased reporting on China and some people and entities in Xinjiang, China are considering suing him for the serious harm his reporting has caused on them."
The Global Times, published by the ruling Chinese Communist Party's official People's Daily newspaper, quoted a Xinjiang Communist Party official yesterday as saying that a number of individuals in the region plan to sue the BBC for "producing fake news, spreading rumours about Xinjiang and slandering China's policy in the region".
The BBC did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Taiwan foreign ministry spokeswoman, Joanne Ou, told Reuters that the ministry could not comment on individual cases but said: "We welcome all reporters from media outlets to come to Taiwan and enjoy freedom of the press and speech."
Additional reporting: Reuters
