May 14, 2008
Four policemen pushed around and detained for 90 minutes a Finnish TV reporter who was on her way to Beichuan near the epicenter of the Sichuan earthquake. Katri Makkonen of the Finnish broadcasting company YLE said police harassed her after local Foreign Affairs...
May 13, 2008
SICHUAN PROVINCE: POLICE CONFISCATE PRESS CARDS, TRY TO FORCIBLY CONFISCATE TAPES OF QUAKE DISASTER May 13, 2008– Police confiscated press cards from a TV team in Juyuan and tried to forcibly seize video the team took of the Sichuan earthquake disaster area. At...
Apr 24, 2008
The foreign affairs office in Ningxia blocked a documentary producer from researching locations for a project on climate change, even though the producer had earlier obtained permission to film in the area. The documentary crew was met in Yinchuan, Ningxia on arrival...
Apr 12, 2008
Police stopped a reporter and photographer from Kyodo News at a checkpoint as they tried to enter the Tibetan-inhabited city of Ganzi in western Sichuan Province. Three policemen insisted they escort the reporter and photographer for their own safety, and followed...
Mar 19, 2008
Police at a roadblock five hours’ drive southwest of Chengdu ordered a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s television crew to return to Chengdu and “not venture out of the city.” The three-member TV crew was trying to reach Tibetan areas. “The...
Mar 18, 2008
Police stopped a three-person CNN TV crew led by reporter Jon Vause at a police checkpoint about 300 kilometres from Aba, their intended destination in Sichuan province and the origin of reports alleging multiple Tibetan shooting victims. Police told the journalists...
