Apr 7, 2014
Last summer Marieke de Vries, correspondent for Dutch radio and television, visited Yingkou in the northern province of Liaoning. She was interested in the city because it has been heavily built but has practically no residents; it is a “ghost town”. Marieke and her...
Feb 22, 2014
Correspondents should be aware that one of our colleagues was detained recently in Urumqi and that during his interrogation uniformed police officers repeatedly told him that in Xinjiang the normal reporting rules do not apply, and that we are required to register and...
Jan 26, 2014
The FCCC board on Friday sent the following letter to Ms. Chen Mingjian at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information Department, protesting about the violent treatment of foreign correspondents outside the court where Xu Zhiyong was being tried last Wednesday. These...
Jan 22, 2014
Wed 22 JAN 2014 – Beijing – Xu Zhiyong trial A BBC team – correspondent, cameraman, producer – turned up at the courthouse at 0845. We got out of our car at the north gate. We were met by police who checked our IDs and said we could not stay. They were polite and it...
Dec 20, 2013
While reporting in Nanle, Henan province, on the detention and disappearance of a Christian minister and two dozen members of his congregation, Sky News correspondent Mark Stone and his team were violently attacked on Friday Dec. 13th by an organized mob and forced to...
Dec 9, 2013
Robert Hutton, a U.K.-based Bloomberg reporter who was part of the press corps travelling with British Prime Minister David Cameron on his visit to China, was told at the last minute that it “would not be appropriate” for him to attend a joint press conference given...
