Journalist intimidated and followed in Xinjiang

September 4th 2014 Xinjiang, Yarkent The reporter working for the Los Angeles Times was “shadowed” by 2 black-clad officers who appeared in the restaurant she was having lunch in just moments after arriving in town. They made no effort to be inconspicuous....

AP Team harassed while reporting on Beijing Film Festival

August 27, 2014 Beijing, Songzhuang When the AP TV team approached the festival venue, they were stopped by two police officers. They were asked for their passports and told to stop filming. About two dozend “thugs” (40 to 50-year-old men who pretended to be from the...

FCCC INCIDENT REPORTS

–submitted by a French journalist: The incident happened while I was in Wukan village, Guangdong province, on November 18th. I had taken a high-speed train on that morning from Guangzhou to the nearby city of Lufeng, hired a driver in Lufeng, managed to get into the...

China detains assistant from Japanese newspaper

Chinese police have detained an assistant working for a Japanese newspaper in Chongqing. The assistant was apparently held in relation with a human rights lawyer who was detained after attending a meeting on the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

The Japanese business...