Sep 30, 2007
Feature Story News Reporter Sam Beattie and AFP’s Francois Bougon spent ten hours with police after interviewing and filming matchmakers in Beijing’s Zhongshan Park. The journalists called the police after four people, including an older woman, grabbed...
Sep 29, 2007
Police in Shenzhen detained a labor rights activist Zhang Zhiru during an interview with Finnish reporter Sami Sillanpaa of Helsingin Sanomat. Two police officers entered the office and demanded Zhang accompany them to the police station. They refused to say why. The...
Sep 28, 2007
Marije Vlaskamp of RTL Dutch Television News was told by police the rule that allows filming in Tiananmen Square without prior permission was ‘changed until further notice.’ She was allowed to do her standup under the Mao portrait after she started to...
Sep 14, 2007
A reporting team from Britain’s Channel 4 was assaulted by thugs, and then detained by police following interviews with petitioner “inmates” at an illegal detention center in the outskirts of Beijing. The center is operated out of the Nanyang City...
Sep 12, 2007
Reporter Robert Saiget and photographer Goh Chai Hin of Agence France-Presse were detained for nearly five hours in Shengyou Village, Dingzhou County, Hebei Province, where they were confirming reports of an August 28th clash between police and villagers. The violence...
