Police prevented a Japanese TV crew from entering an area in Dujiangyan where a school had collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake. The family they had arranged to talk to were ordered to go on a “sightseeing trip” with officials. “They didn’t want...
Police stopped an American newspaper journalist from visiting the site of the Juyuan Middle School in Juyuan Town, Sichuan. Although the correspondent had a valid press pass to report on the earthquake, issued by the Sichuan provincial government, he was told he could...
Police in Dujiangyan detained a Japanese TV reporter and cameraman after they attempted to report on parents who had lost children in schools that collapsed during the Sichuan earthquake. When the crew tried to film parents crying in front of the school, police put...
Police stopped a three-person TV4 (U.K.) television team, headed by Lindsey Hilsum, from filming and interviewing parents at a middle school in Jiandi township, Shifang, where 56 children died in the earthquake. Several police followed the journalists from Deyang to...
Police barred filming, then detained a three-person crew from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for three hours after the journalists attempted to report from outside the barricaded grounds of the Juyuan middle school, where many students died in the May 12...
