Jun 17, 2010
The week of June 7, Marianne Barriaux of Agence France Press encountered interference while reporting in the Sichuan earthquake zone. After registering with Dujiangyan officials, she was granted access. Barriaux was working on a story about mothers who had and tried...
Apr 2, 2009
LOCATION: Sichuan Province, Yingxiu TYPE OF INCIDENT: Barred from public space TOPIC: Sichuan earthquake NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: German QUOTE: “Before arriving in Yingxiu I had tried to obtain permission by calling the Sichuan Province waiban foreign affairs...
Apr 1, 2009
LOCATION: Dujiangyan, Minjiang commune, on a public road TYPE OF INCIDENT: Intimidation of source, reporter detained TOPIC: One-year anniversary of the Sichuan earthquake NATIONALITY/ORGANIZATION: French print/radio “They said I was detained because I was in a...
Jun 23, 2008
Plainclothes police in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, turned Irish Times journalist Clifford Coonan and a photographer away from the home of parents whose children died in the May 12 earthquake. Later authorities further harassed Coonan, intimidated his Chinese sources...
Jun 18, 2008
The Wall Street Journal reported that, during the second week in June, police barred one of its correspondents from entering neighborhoods around four collapsed schools and ordered him to leave three such towns, including Xianger. The WSJ said one of its reporters was...
