Jun 3, 2008
Police detained a reporter and photographer from Associated Press and told them not to cover protests by parents who lost children in the May 12 earthquake. Reporter Cara Anna and photographer Ng Han Guan arrived around 9:30 a.m. at the courthouse in Dujiangyan,...
Jun 3, 2008
Police in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, detained a reporter and photographer from Kyodo News as they were covering a story on parents who were trying to file a lawsuit over the deaths of students at a collapsed school. About ten policemen surrounded the photographer,...
Jun 2, 2008
Police forcibly removed a Christian Science Monitor correspondent and his Chinese assistant from covering a meeting in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, between local officials and angry bereaved parents of children who died in the Juyuan middle school. Several riot...
Jun 1, 2008
Police in Gansu tailed Dutch journalist Hans Moleman of Volkskrant newspaper and a Tibetan-speaking interpreter, insisting on the first day that he check out of his hotel in Xiahe because foreigners were not allowed to stay there. On the second day, police followed...
May 15, 2008
Jonathan Watts of Britain’s Guardian newspaper said military personnel working in Niufei Village, Pingwu County, told his reporting team they were not allowed to video the soldiers en route to a school buried in a landslide. “I told them they should be...
May 14, 2008
Sami Sillanpaa, correspondent for the Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat, said two days after the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan a half dozen foreign correspondents were barred at a roadblock from entering the town of Beichuan near the epicenter. While the foreign...
