Jul 12, 2008
Police interrupted a reporting visit by Rupert Wingfield Hayes of the BBC to the former petitioners village near South Beijing railway station in July. While talking to locals for about half an hour, he could see an informant in a black shirt calling on a mobile...
Jul 10, 2008
Holly Williams of Sky TV was stopped by police when she and her crew attempted to film in the petitioners village near South Beijing Railway station. The police arrived within minutes and demanded that she hand over the petition papers that locals had given her. When...
Jul 3, 2008
Plainclothes and uniformed security officials blocked a live broadcast by German ZDF television from the Great Wall at Simatai, Beijing, saying the American analyst they were interviewing was “not a licensed Chinese expert.” ZDF’s Johannes Hano said...
Jun 26, 2008
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...
Jun 23, 2008
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...
