Police in Beijing roughed up and detained a British journalist after he covered a Free Tibet protest close to the city’s main Olympic zone. John Ray of Independent Television News said he was pinned down by police, dragged along the floor and pushed into a...
Two police officers in an unmarked car followed and briefly questioned two Scandinavian journalists working together on a story in an eastern suburb of Beijing. Police arrived in Pingfang village and demanded to see the identification of Beijing-based Sami Sillanpaa...
Plainclothes police and unidentified volunteers physically blocked foreign camera crews from filming and reporting on a demonstration and press conference by American Christians in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. John Ray, China correspondent for Britain’s...
Local officials and plainclothes officers followed journalists attempting to report on migrant workers in Beijing, intimidating sources and later telling the journalists they needed government permission to conduct interviews. Kristoffer Ronneberg, correspondent for...
Beijing police manhandled a Danish television journalist and his Chinese assistant, knocking their camera to the ground and breaking it as the team tried to cover the crowds lined up to buy tickets during the last round of Olympic ticket sales. DR Asia Bureau Chief...
