Feb 11, 2009
LOCATION: Hebei Province, town and village near Baoding TYPE OF INCIDENT: Foreign journalist, local hire and source followed and filmed by authorities. TOPIC: Rural spending on health care and household appliances. NATIONALITY: Spanish and Dutch Description: Local...
Feb 10, 2009
DATE: Feb. 10, 2009 LOCATION: Henan Province, Luoyang TYPE OF INCIDENT: Intimidation of reporter and driver TOPIC: Drought “We found out our hired driver had been intimidated and frightened into backing out of driving us around.” DESCRIPTION: We were in...
Feb 1, 2009
LOCATION: Hebei Province, Shijizhuang TYPE OF INCIDENT: Intimidation of source REPORTING TOPIC: Sanlu baby formula scandal DESCRIPTION: The parents of a child affected by contaminated Sanlu milk powder canceled a scheduled interview at the last minute. QUOTE:...
Jan 14, 2009
Police detained four Scandinavian television correspondents for two hours after denying them an interview with blogger Zeng Jinyan about the detention of her husband, HIV/AIDS activist Hu Jia, in late December. The reporters represented three Scandinavian TV stations....
Dec 3, 2008
2008: 178 cases (Jan.1-Dec.2) of which, Olympic period: 63 cases (July 25-Oct.17) 2007: 160 cases Total no. of incidents documented by FCCC since Jan 1, 2007 “Olympic free reporting” regulation took effect: 338
Nov 28, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor correspondent, Peter Ford, was detained and questioned for three hours after the police broke up a house church meeting in Nanyang, Henan province he had been reporting on with his assistant. Around 15 people including uniformed and...
