Incident report: Urumqi, Xinjiang

Two reporters from The Associated Press reporting in Urumqi following an attack on May 22 were followed around, asked to leave Uighur neighborhoods and barred from conducting interviews. A reporter was at a hospital interviewing survivors of the attack on May 23 when...

FCCC Annual Working Conditions Report 2014

(May 2014) pdf Over the past year, foreign journalists have kept up robust efforts to report on significant and sensitive political, economic and cultural developments in China. Regrettably, China’s government continues to harass, threaten and intimidate overseas...

FCCC protests detention of news assistant

The FCCC is alarmed and deeply concerned by reports that Xin Jiang, a Chinese news assistant employed by the Japanese newspaper Nikkei, has been detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble” after having been held incommunicado by police for...