Sources taken away and harassed

September 24th 2014 Hubei, Wuhan While reporting about the democracy movement and local elections, four people who had agreed to be interviewed by a journalist working for a European newspaper were hindered from doing so. One interviewee was taken from his home to...

Wuhan Police Detain Photographers Covering Property Dispute

Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer, Swiss photographers, were detained for three hours in Wuchang, the southern area of Wuhan. Uniformed police detained the photographers shortly after residents started describing how they had been beaten up and threatened in a...