Mar 16, 2008
Police stopped Belgian Public Broadcaster’s (VRT) correspondent, cameraman, assistant and Chinese driver at a roadblock on the way from Lanzhou to Xiahe in Gansu province. Police told the reporting team to show their IDs and press cards and questioned them. The...
Mar 13, 2008
Authorities barred a U.S. film crew from using e-mail or leaving its hotel, and abruptly terminated its plans to continue filming at Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province. Authorities also ordered the eight-member crew not to talk about the police in riot gear...
Mar 5, 2008
A cameraman for Czech TV says undercover police in Shenyang, Liaoning province, searched his room, seized four videotapes and went through his computer after he conducted interviews with North Korean refugees. Officials at the Chinese Foreign Ministry accused the...
Feb 25, 2008
Officials in Ningxia demanded that two correspondents – one French, one Danish – register with authorities before interviewing an imam, after the journalists were told by foreign affairs offices in Shanghai and Ningxia that due to new Olympics reporting...
Jan 24, 2008
Six to seven plainclothes thugs prevented a four-person ARD TV team from approaching the home of Yuan Weijing in a Shandong province village. It was the second attempt in two weeks by Germany’s ARD to talk with Yuan, wife of imprisoned blind human-rights...
Jan 14, 2008
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....
