Aug 8, 2008
An Associated Press writer and photographer were questioned by police, searched and detained at various locations over three days while covering the aftermath of bombings in Xinjiang province. AP journalist William Foreman and a photographer arrived in Yining,...
Aug 7, 2008
Plainclothes police and unidentified volunteers physically blocked foreign camera crews from filming and reporting on a demonstration and press conference by American Christians in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. John Ray, China correspondent for Britain’s...
Aug 7, 2008
Local officials and plainclothes officers followed journalists attempting to report on migrant workers in Beijing, intimidating sources and later telling the journalists they needed government permission to conduct interviews. Kristoffer Ronneberg, correspondent for...
Aug 4, 2008
Police insisted on seeing and deleting photographs taken by an Agence France Presse photographer who was covering the killing of paramilitary police in Kashgar, Xinjiang. The photographer, who was with two colleagues in a hotel room overlooking the site of the attack,...
Aug 4, 2008
Paramilitary police detained, kicked and beat two Japanese journalists attempting to cover the aftermath of deadly attacks on police in Kashgar, Xinjiang. Paramilitaries forcibly removed from a public street then beat and detained Masami Kawakita, an...
Aug 1, 2008
Katri Makkonen of Finnish Broadcasting Company was followed and her sources harassed in Handan, Hebei province while trying to do a story on a steel factory. The factory had refused requests for two weeks for a visit, but she wanted to talk to locals outside. Soon...
