Mar 17, 2008
Police turned back a reporter from Britain’s The Guardian after he drove over a mountain pass to enter an Linxia, Gansu province, an area near the border between with Sichuan where protests had taken place. Reporter Jonathan Watts said an English-speaking...
Mar 17, 2008
Police detained a Finnish Broadcasting Co. correspondent and cameraman outside the monastery town of Xiahe in Gansu province and threatened to confiscate their footage. The team arrived in Xiahe on March 15, and was trying to leave when law enforcement officers...
Mar 17, 2008
Five policemen entered a hotel room in Tongren, Qinghai province where a Kyodo News reporter was staying at around 1:30 a.m. and demanded to see his identification papers. Local foreign affairs officials later told the reporter to leave the area because it was...
Mar 16, 2008
Police turned back a correspondent for U.S. National Public Radio who was seeking to reach Xiahe, Gansu province. The correspondent was first stopped at a checkpoint about 50 kilometers outside of Lanzhou. The reporter took a back road, and was turned back again at a...
Mar 16, 2008
Police barred a television crew from ABC News of the U.S. from filming in a Tibetan neighborhood in Chengdu, Sichuan province. When the reporters informed police of the Olympic rule allowing foreign reporters to travel and interview anyone who consents, Stephanie Sy...
Mar 16, 2008
Police stopped correspondents from Britain’s ITV News at a toll both an hour outside of the monastery town of Xiahe, Gansu province, took details from their passports, and told them to leave. A plainclothes policeman filmed the reporters. Authorities also...
