Sep 23, 2014
September 23th 2014 Xinjiang, Urumqi A TV crew working for an international 24-hour news broadcaster wanted to cover the verdict in the trial of Ilham Tohti in Urumqi. The local Waiban told them that they were allowed to report outside the courthouse but on the day of...
Sep 23, 2014
September 23th 2014 Xilin, Yichun The reporter from The Guardian was talking to residents on the streets of Yichun about the state of the local economy. She was approached by plainclothes police, who showed identification, and taken to the police station. It was...
Sep 15, 2014
September 2014 Xinjiang, Elishku A Washington Post team was turned away at the one of several checkpoints around Elishku, as army trucks rumbled past, and was subsequently detained for several hours by informers, police and Communist Party officials for reporting from...
Sep 15, 2014
In Mid-September a uniformed police official came to the apartment of a French correspondent in Tuanjiehu Beili, Chaoyang district. At that time the correspondent was on holiday in Paris. The Chinese roommate of the correspondent opened the door. The policeman argued...
Sep 10, 2014
September 10th 2014 Hebei, near Zhangjiakou The European journalists were invited by the Beijing 2022 Olympic Bid Committee to tour the proposed winter sport sites in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province. The tour was originally a 2-day affair with bus transport from Beijing,...
Sep 4, 2014
September 4th 2014 Xinjiang, Yarkent The reporter working for the Los Angeles Times was “shadowed” by 2 black-clad officers who appeared in the restaurant she was having lunch in just moments after arriving in town. They made no effort to be inconspicuous....
