Jun 18, 2008
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...
Jun 15, 2008
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...
Jun 12, 2008
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...
Jun 11, 2008
Police stopped an American newspaper journalist from visiting the site of the Juyuan Middle School in Juyuan Town, Sichuan. Although the correspondent had a valid press pass to report on the earthquake, issued by the Sichuan provincial government, he was told he could...
Jun 10, 2008
Police in Dujiangyan detained a Japanese TV reporter and cameraman after they attempted to report on parents who had lost children in schools that collapsed during the Sichuan earthquake. When the crew tried to film parents crying in front of the school, police put...
