Beijing Police Manhandle HK Journalists

According to multiple press reports and video clips posted online, at least four Hong Kong journalists were manhandled, shoved and pushed by police while attempting to cover a crowd of Beijingers trying to buy Olympics tickets. Video clips show police shoving...

Beijing Police Interrupt BBC Reporters At Petitioners’ Village

Police interrupted a reporting visit by Rupert Wingfield Hayes of the BBC to the former petitioners village near South Beijing railway station in July. While talking to locals for about half an hour, he could see an informant in a black shirt calling on a mobile...

Beijing Police Stop Journalist Filming Petitioners

Holly Williams of Sky TV was stopped by police when she and her crew attempted to film in the petitioners village near South Beijing Railway station. The police arrived within minutes and demanded that she hand over the petition papers that locals had given her. When...

Police Disrupt Live TV Broadcast From Great Wall

Plainclothes and uniformed security officials blocked a live broadcast by German ZDF television from the Great Wall at Simatai, Beijing, saying the American analyst they were interviewing was “not a licensed Chinese expert.” ZDF’s Johannes Hano said...

Beijing Police Detain Scandinavian TV Reporters

Police detained four Scandinavian television correspondents for two hours after denying them an interview with blogger Zeng Jinyan about the detention of her husband, HIV/AIDS activist Hu Jia, in late December. The reporters represented three Scandinavian TV stations....