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...

Shanghai Police Hold Reporters After Covering Protest

Shanghai police held Ola Wong of the Swedish daily Sydsvenska Dagbladet and a Canadian freelance photographer for one hour while they were covering protestors in Shanghai’s People’s Square who oppose plans for a magnetic-levitation train project. Hundreds...

Japanese Reporter Assaulted At World Expo Construction Site

Mayumi Otani, correspondent for Japan’s Mainichi Newspaper, was assaulted in Shanghai on March 27 while covering a demonstration in a neighborhood that was being demolished for the 2010 World Expo. Three men hit her while she was photographing a protestor who...