New details on Wangfujing interference

Dear Members, In addition to the vicious assault on a Bloomberg journalist, the FCCC has confirmed that journalists from 15 other news organizations experienced serious interference on February 27 in Beijing’s Wangfujing area. There appeared to be a number of...

Beijing Police Question, Threaten News Assistant (Update May 26)

Update (May 26, 2010) Chinese authorities dispute the version of events outlined below, specifically the quoted remarks attributed to the police. They also dispute that the meeting was intimidating in nature. Chinese authorities say the assistant was reprimanded for a...

Canadian Journalist Reprimanded for Coverage of Jailed Citizen

Geoffrey York, correspondent for Canada’s Globe and Mail, was called into the Foreign Ministry to be reprimanded over his coverage of the case of Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citizen and ethnic Uyghur who was recently found guilty of “splittism” and membership in...

FCCC Website taken down after attacks

Thursday, 1 Apr 2010 Dear members, Over the past two days, the website of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China has been the target of persistent denial-of-service attacks. We have taken the site down temporarily while we work to sort out the problem. We...

Beijing Authorities Beat Kyodo Journalists

LOCATION: Beijing TYPE OF INCIDENT: Violence, broken equipment TOPIC: Oct. 1 National Day NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: Kyodo news agency/Japan The Japanese Kyodo news agency has reported that unidentified authorities in Beijing stormed the hotel room of three visiting...