TV Crew Attacked

While reporting in Nanle, Henan province, on the detention and disappearance of a Christian minister and two dozen members of his congregation, Sky News correspondent Mark Stone and his team were violently attacked on Friday Dec. 13th by an organized mob and forced to...

Foreign Correspondents Club of China Year-end Statement

Dec 9, 2013 Reviewing the conditions under which foreign reporters work in China, the FCCC is disturbed to note a number of negative trends over the past year. –  In particular, we have found that the Chinese authorities are increasingly using the denial of...

Detention of TV crew in Urumqi

Stefan Blommaert, correspondent for VRT (Belgian TV and radio) was detained along with his cameraman and producer for three hours in Urumqi on Tuesday July 30th by policemen who told him he needed special permission to film in Xinjiang. That is not the case, according...

FCCC Annual Working Conditions Report 2013

(May 2013) The past year has seen unprecedented examples of investigative journalism by western reporters in China. Unfortunately, the Chinese government has increasingly resorted to threats and intimidation against foreign media, according to the Foreign...