August 2015 Tianjin European reporter We were doing a story about the family of missing firefighters who work on contract with Tianjin Port authorities. We were in contact with family members of the non-PSB fire brigade members who are missing in the Tianjin blast. We...
July 2015 Beijing British news outlet I was detained by security agents while trying to interview a house church leader at his home in Beijing. Police have erected a small shed at the entrance to this guy’s compound (apparently to keep an eye on him with CCTV...
August 2015 Tianjin European news outlet We had a bunch of interference in Tianjin. I was held up by police on the side of the road for about an hour along with a video journalist colleague, who is a Chinese national, when we were covering a protest by families of...
August 2015 Tianjin American news outlet I was shooting interviews in Tianjin on a street corner near a police station the day after the blasts. The police thought I was shooting the front of the station. Even though the station was just a few steps away, they got...
Reporter Akio Yaita of the Japanese newspaper Sankei on Aug 18 applied for a credential to cover the military parade. On Sept 1, an official of the Media Center for the parade told Sankei that the pass for Mr. Yaita would not be issued because the application...
May 18, 2015, Linshui, Sichuan “A peaceful protest of local residence ended in a violent confrontation between police and demonstrators. The local government had allowed Al Jazeera to report on the town’s return to normality. As I was recording a statement...
