Aug 6, 2007
Police prevented around a dozen foreign reporters from leaving the site of a news conference on media freedom in China and a subsequent event staged by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Some reporters were detained for about 90 minutes. One reporter was shoved around....
Aug 2, 2007
A European documentary team, which the government had granted permission to report in Tibet, was repeatedly harassed by local authorities during its visit there. Authorities interrupted two interviews, once because the Tibetan language was used, and once because...
Aug 1, 2007
During a reporting trip to Xinjiang, the Muslim Uighur region in China’s far west, reporter Brice Pedroletti of France’s Le Monde newspaper was followed and searched, and his sources were intimidated. Pedroletti visited the apartment of the daughter of exiled human...
Jul 1, 2007
Police detained a reporter and cameraman for a Japanese broadcaster as they attempted to cover a story about drought in Hebei province. The news crew was forced to halt filming of farmers in a corn field, then taken away to a restaurant where they were interrogated...
Mar 27, 2007
Mayumi Otani, correspondent for Japan’s Mainichi Newspaper, was assaulted in Shanghai on March 27 while covering a demonstration in a neighborhood that was being demolished for the 2010 World Expo. Three men hit her while she was photographing a protestor who...
Jan 4, 2007
Holly Williams and her crew from Britain’s Sky News were detained twice in two days in January near the North Korean border, where they were doing a story about signs of North Korean poverty which were evident in China. On the first occasion secret police detained the...
