Jul 30, 2013
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...
May 19, 2013
This is a story from a European broadcast journalist: “I was working on a story about security devices on and around Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing before the June 4th anniversary. While working on location, police came up to me five times and asked...
Feb 28, 2013
The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China is appalled to learn of yesterday’s brutal assault on a German TV crew by thugs apparently linked to local authorities in Hebei province. The crew, belonging to ARD television, narrowly avoided serious injury when two men...
Jan 6, 2013
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May 5, 2012
On the 4th of May around a dozen foreign correspondents were summoned to the visa department of the Public Security Bureau. Earlier that day they had been reporting in the car park of the Chaoyang Hospital where blind activist Chen Guangcheng is currently undergoing...
May 3, 2012
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