AP Team harassed while reporting on Beijing Film Festival

August 27, 2014 Beijing, Songzhuang When the AP TV team approached the festival venue, they were stopped by two police officers. They were asked for their passports and told to stop filming. About two dozend “thugs” (40 to 50-year-old men who pretended to be from the...

FCCC INCIDENT REPORTS

–submitted by a French journalist: The incident happened while I was in Wukan village, Guangdong province, on November 18th. I had taken a high-speed train on that morning from Guangzhou to the nearby city of Lufeng, hired a driver in Lufeng, managed to get into the...

China detains assistant from Japanese newspaper

Chinese police have detained an assistant working for a Japanese newspaper in Chongqing. The assistant was apparently held in relation with a human rights lawyer who was detained after attending a meeting on the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.

The Japanese business...

Incident report: Beijing

Two reporters from The Associated Press were covering a temple visit by family members of passengers of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 in the Western Hills Park in western Beijing on June 12 when they encountered police interference and damage to their...

Incident report: Urumqi, Xinjiang

Two reporters from The Associated Press reporting in Urumqi following an attack on May 22 were followed around, asked to leave Uighur neighborhoods and barred from conducting interviews. A reporter was at a hospital interviewing survivors of the attack on May 23 when...