Five policemen entered a hotel room in Tongren, Qinghai province where a Kyodo News reporter was staying at around 1:30 a.m. and demanded to see his identification papers. Local foreign affairs officials later told the reporter to leave the area because it was...
Police turned back a correspondent for U.S. National Public Radio who was seeking to reach Xiahe, Gansu province. The correspondent was first stopped at a checkpoint about 50 kilometers outside of Lanzhou. The reporter took a back road, and was turned back again at a...
Police stopped correspondents from Britain’s ITV News at a toll both an hour outside of the monastery town of Xiahe, Gansu province, took details from their passports, and told them to leave. A plainclothes policeman filmed the reporters. Authorities also...
Police stopped Belgian Public Broadcaster’s (VRT) correspondent, cameraman, assistant and Chinese driver at a roadblock on the way from Lanzhou to Xiahe in Gansu province. Police told the reporting team to show their IDs and press cards and questioned them. The...
Authorities barred a U.S. film crew from using e-mail or leaving its hotel, and abruptly terminated its plans to continue filming at Labrang Monastery in Xiahe, Gansu province. Authorities also ordered the eight-member crew not to talk about the police in riot gear...
