Police and local officials who refused to identify hemselves followed for nine hours, harassed and briefly detained three foreign journalists, their Chinese assistant and a source traveling with them in Hebei Province. The media were trying to report on water...
Plainclothes police in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, turned Irish Times journalist Clifford Coonan and a photographer away from the home of parents whose children died in the May 12 earthquake. Later authorities further harassed Coonan, intimidated his Chinese sources...
The Wall Street Journal reported that, during the second week in June, police barred one of its correspondents from entering neighborhoods around four collapsed schools and ordered him to leave three such towns, including Xianger. The WSJ said one of its reporters was...
Local officials and police followed for three days and harassed a reporter and photographer from the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende, preventing them from interviewing miners and local residents about a coal mine disaster in Shanxi province. Ten uniformed officers...
Police prevented a Japanese TV crew from entering an area in Dujiangyan where a school had collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake. The family they had arranged to talk to were ordered to go on a “sightseeing trip” with officials. “They didn’t want...
