Jun 9, 2008
Police stopped a three-person TV4 (U.K.) television team, headed by Lindsey Hilsum, from filming and interviewing parents at a middle school in Jiandi township, Shifang, where 56 children died in the earthquake. Several police followed the journalists from Deyang to...
Jun 5, 2008
Police barred filming, then detained a three-person crew from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for three hours after the journalists attempted to report from outside the barricaded grounds of the Juyuan middle school, where many students died in the May 12...
Jun 4, 2008
Police prevented two Dutch correspondents from entering Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, on June 4, and later barred them from a collapsed middle school where parents had been congregating since the earthquake. The reporters for Elsevier and Radio Netherlands were turned...
Jun 4, 2008
Journalist Ole Torp and a cameraman for Norwegian Broadcasting were chased away from the Juyuan Middle School and a primary school in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, first by plainclothes officers then, a day later, by armed police who seemed to be “in full battle...
Jun 3, 2008
Police detained a reporter and photographer from Associated Press and told them not to cover protests by parents who lost children in the May 12 earthquake. Reporter Cara Anna and photographer Ng Han Guan arrived around 9:30 a.m. at the courthouse in Dujiangyan,...
