Immigration police pulled two reporters away from the emergency ward at Tiantan hospital in Beijing where they were reporting on the beating of Christian activist Hua Huiqi. At the time, Hua Huiqi was unconscious; it seemed he was being denied treatment. The police...
Finnish Broadcasting Co. correspondent Katri Makkonen and a colleague were blocked by authorities from filming petitioners in Fengtai, and then barred from filming in Tiananmen Square. Authorities originally said the reporters were allowed to film the Fengtai...
Swiss photographers Monika Fischer and Mathias Braschler were detained for five hours in Urumqi after photographing a uniformed man they saw walking along a railway track. The man gave his permission to be photographed. The police said the photographers were not...
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...
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...
