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 9, 2013 Reviewing the conditions under which foreign reporters work in China, the FCCC is disturbed to note a number of negative trends over the past year. – In particular, we have found that the Chinese authorities are increasingly using the denial of...
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...
This is a story from a European broadcast journalist: “I was working on a story about security devices on and around Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing before the June 4th anniversary. While working on location, police came up to me five times and asked...
On the 4th of May around a dozen foreign correspondents were summoned to the visa department of the Public Security Bureau. Earlier that day they had been reporting in the car park of the Chaoyang Hospital where blind activist Chen Guangcheng is currently undergoing...
