Urumqi Paramilitary Beat Journalists, Damage Gear

LOCATION: Urumqi TYPE OF INCIDENT: Violence, detained for three hours, broken equipment, confiscated tape TOPIC: Protests NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Hong Kong/television “At around 3.30pm, we were interviewing Han Chinese protestors on Hongqi road. There were a few...

Urumqi Armed Police Beat Journalists, Confiscate Tapes

LOCATION: Urumqi TYPE OF INCIDENT: Violence, detained for three hours, broken equipment, confiscated tape TOPIC: Protests NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Hong Kong/TVB, two others DESCRIPTION: “We were covering a rally in Urumqi on Renmin Nanlu. Armed police...

Urumqi Police Seize Cameras During Protest

On Sept. 4, while covering protests in Urumqi, Associated Press photographer Andy Wong and TV producers David Wivell and Isolda Morillo had their equipment confiscated by paramilitary police. All three are fine and police did not take their documents. The cameras were...

Shaanxi Officials Block Access To Poisoning Victims

An AP photographer, reporter, and APTN camera crew were followed by local government officials in Fengxiang county, Shaanxi province, who attempted to block or disrupt interviews with parents of children hospitalized for lead poisoning on Aug. 19. A cameraman was...

Photographer in Kashgar Detained, Deported

LOCATION: Kashgar TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space, Detained TOPIC: Xinjiang Unrest NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Associated Press Associated Press Photographer Elizabeth Dalziel was detained after taking photographs of a convoy going through the city. She was...

Reporter Stopped at Kashgar Mosque

LOCATION: Village near Kashgar TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space, Detained TOPIC: Xinjiang Unrest NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Katri Makkonen, Finnish Broadcasting Company DESCRIPTION: I was waiting at the village mosque for friday prayers to end. Our driver...